Picture money handed over past the point where it was warranted. Which side you are standing on decides the sense: paying a person more than the work was worth, or paying more for a thing than it was worth.
可以想成：錢付出去，而且付過了該有的那條線。你站在哪一邊決定意思：一邊是給某個人的報酬超過他的工作值得的，一邊是買一樣東西付得比它的價值多。
原始詞典資料2 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。
overpayverb/oʊ.vɚ.peɪ/
- 1
To pay too much.
- I think we overpaid for that old car.
- Be careful not to overpay when buying second-hand items.
- 2
To be more than an ample reward for.
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。