Overhaul

(noun.) periodic maintenance on a car or machine; 'it was time for an overhaul on the tractor'.

(verb.) make repairs, renovations, revisions or adjustments to; 'You should overhaul your car engine'; 'overhaul the health care system'.

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• Not until the middle of the century did the tonnage of steamships upon the sea begin to overhaul that of sailing-ships. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But Jo got out her desk and began to overhaul her half-finished manuscripts. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• He believed the pits would have to be overhauled if they were to go on working. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• As many boats were now quite close to us it was inevitable that we would be quickly overhauled in the shaft, and captured or killed in short order. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Here he checked the housekeeper's accounts, and overhauled the butler's cellar-book. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• That represents the last time that the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• They were rapidly overhauling us when Tars Tarkas cried to me to hasten ahead and discover, if possible, the sanctuary we sought. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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