Overbooked

释义 Definition

（尤指交通或酒店）超额预订的；订满甚至“多订”的，导致可能无法满足所有预订。（也可泛指日程排得过满。）

发音 Pronunciation (IPA)

/ˌoʊvərˈbʊkt/

例句 Examples

My flight was overbooked, so they asked for volunteers to take a later one.
我的航班超额预订了，所以他们征求志愿者改乘下一班。

The hotel, overbooked during the festival, offered guests vouchers and arranged rooms in a nearby property.
节日期间这家酒店超额预订，于是给客人提供代金券，并安排到附近的酒店入住。

词源 Etymology

由 over-（“过度、超过”）+ book（“预订、登记”）构成；overbook 表示“超额预订”，其过去分词/形容词形式 overbooked 用来描述“已经被超额预订”的状态。

相关词 Related Words

• Overbook
• Booking
• Reservation
• Fully Booked
• Sold Out
• Capacity
• Waitlist
• Bumped
• Voucher

文学作品中的用例 Literary Works

• Joseph Heller，《Catch-22》
• Tom Wolfe，《The Bonfire of the Vanities》