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词汇 steamroll
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Definition of steamroll in English:

steamroll

verbˈstiːmrəʊlˈstēmrōl
North American
  • another term for steamroller
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In the days following his budget speech to a joint session of Congress last week, the president has tried mightily to steamroll congress into supporting his $1.6 trillion tax cut.
    • The Steelers have played sloppily in the last three weeks, and they are not the team that steamrolled through the regular season in '04.
    • This is for the times a man stopped talking, for one minute, to hear other voices and realize he was steamrolling his opinion through.
    • But the decision to use the Parliament Act to steamroll the ban through the Lords will be a massive headache.
    • On the flip side, the shared services group, according to several former technology leaders, often steamrolls business unit wishes.
    • Liberals forget, or dismiss, the discord of the FDR years - or they salute him for steamrolling his critics - because they like what he did.
    • In the process, Dean and her colleagues steamrolled over opposition from local business leaders and the powerful San Jose Mercury-News.
    • After hanging on to win the semifinal against Cornell, the Wildcats were steamrolled by Minnesota in the championship game, coming up short once again in their bid for a first national title.
    • Just imagine steamrolling through the gym like a machine, determined to outdo your previous best lifts.
    • You'd have super-majorities in cases where one faction was dead-set on steamrolling the other.
    • Chávez has spent the past two years engineering political reforms that strengthened his power base and steamrolled the opposition.
    • If you don't make your point quickly, or he realizes that you don't have something interesting to say, that's when he steamrolls over you.
    • He believes one potential threat could be a consolidation in American retailing - if, say, Wal-Mart steamrolls its competitors into submission.
    • A topographical map of Michigan makes the state look as if someone steamrolled it with heavy equipment, then rumpled the northwest corner.
    • The President's agenda is being steamrolled, and I hope Congress won't roll over and die on this.
    • Once referred to as roughage, fiber represents the portion of plant-based foods that your body can't digest, a bulky mass that steamrolls through your digestive system virtually unaltered.
    • So, how could they have only envisaged ‘permanent prosperity’ when the economic train was steamrolling directly into the Great Depression?
    • It was there that they were steamrolled by the mighty St. Louis Rams offense, a defeat that exposed Minnesota's most glaring deficiency: defense.
    • For my part, I was happy to see that, this time anyway, the poorer nations stayed together and didn't let themselves get rolled - or steamrolled - by the richer ones.
    • ‘It was just an idea that steamrolled,’ says Cave.

Definition of steamroll in US English:

steamroll

verbˈstēmrōl
North American
  • another term for steamroller
    Example sentencesExamples
    • You'd have super-majorities in cases where one faction was dead-set on steamrolling the other.
    • For my part, I was happy to see that, this time anyway, the poorer nations stayed together and didn't let themselves get rolled - or steamrolled - by the richer ones.
    • In the days following his budget speech to a joint session of Congress last week, the president has tried mightily to steamroll congress into supporting his $1.6 trillion tax cut.
    • But the decision to use the Parliament Act to steamroll the ban through the Lords will be a massive headache.
    • The President's agenda is being steamrolled, and I hope Congress won't roll over and die on this.
    • Liberals forget, or dismiss, the discord of the FDR years - or they salute him for steamrolling his critics - because they like what he did.
    • Chávez has spent the past two years engineering political reforms that strengthened his power base and steamrolled the opposition.
    • In the process, Dean and her colleagues steamrolled over opposition from local business leaders and the powerful San Jose Mercury-News.
    • The Steelers have played sloppily in the last three weeks, and they are not the team that steamrolled through the regular season in '04.
    • On the flip side, the shared services group, according to several former technology leaders, often steamrolls business unit wishes.
    • This is for the times a man stopped talking, for one minute, to hear other voices and realize he was steamrolling his opinion through.
    • Just imagine steamrolling through the gym like a machine, determined to outdo your previous best lifts.
    • So, how could they have only envisaged ‘permanent prosperity’ when the economic train was steamrolling directly into the Great Depression?
    • ‘It was just an idea that steamrolled,’ says Cave.
    • After hanging on to win the semifinal against Cornell, the Wildcats were steamrolled by Minnesota in the championship game, coming up short once again in their bid for a first national title.
    • It was there that they were steamrolled by the mighty St. Louis Rams offense, a defeat that exposed Minnesota's most glaring deficiency: defense.
    • A topographical map of Michigan makes the state look as if someone steamrolled it with heavy equipment, then rumpled the northwest corner.
    • Once referred to as roughage, fiber represents the portion of plant-based foods that your body can't digest, a bulky mass that steamrolls through your digestive system virtually unaltered.
    • He believes one potential threat could be a consolidation in American retailing - if, say, Wal-Mart steamrolls its competitors into submission.
    • If you don't make your point quickly, or he realizes that you don't have something interesting to say, that's when he steamrolls over you.
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