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（藥物等的）過量；致死（或中毒）劑量
If someone takes an overdose of a drug, they take more of it than is safe.
例句
Each year, one in 100 girls aged 15-19 takes an overdose...
每年，每100名15至19歲的少女中就有1位嗑藥過量。
In 1970, guitarist Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose.
1970年，吉他手吉米·亨德里克斯因服藥過量而死亡。
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過量服用（藥物）；過量吸食（毒品）
If someone overdoses on a drug, they take more of it than is safe.
例句
He'd overdosed on heroin...
他曾過量吸食海洛因。
Medical opinion varies on how many tablets it takes to overdose.
醫生對于服用多少藥片算作過量意見不一。
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（尤指有害物的）過量，過多
You can refer to too much of something, especially something harmful, as an overdose.
例句
An overdose of sun, sea, sand and chlorine can give lighter hair a green tinge.
過量接觸陽光、海水、沙粒和氯氣會使淺色頭發略呈綠色。
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過多擁有；沉溺
You can say that someone overdoses on something if they have or do too much of it.
例句
The city, he concluded, had overdosed on design.
他的結論是這座城市過分重視規劃設計了。
...tourists that tend to overdose on the regional specialities of goose, duck and Armagnac.
縱情享受鵝肉、鴨肉、阿馬尼亞克酒等當地美食的游客