Picture a deadline sitting behind you: the moment it should have happened has already gone past, and it still has not happened. The word is always measured against a time that was expected — sometimes an exact date on a slip, sometimes just a general sense that it is well past time.
可以想成：期限已經被你甩在身後了——那個「本來該完成」的時間點過去了，而事情還沒發生。這個字永遠是拿一個「原本預期的時間」在比：有時候是單子上明確的日期，有時候只是大家覺得早就該發生了。
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原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
overdueadj/ˌəʊ.vəˈdju/
- 1
Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
- his library books were three days overdue; my car is overdue for an oil change; she finally left on a long overdue vacation
- [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
overduenoun/ˌəʊ.vəˈdju/
- 1
A borrowed item (such as a library book) that has not been returned on time.
- 2
A payment or invoice that is past due.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。