来自override,凌驾。引申词义凌驾一切的，首要的。

1. Development is of overriding importance.

发展是硬道理

2. The conquest of inflation has been the Government's overriding economic priority for nearly 15 years.

遏制通货膨胀是政府近15年来经济工作方面的头等大事。

3. Given the overriding need to cut the budget deficit, the administration will ask congress for only $15 million this summer.

考虑到当务之急是削减预算赤字，今年夏天政府只计划向国会申请1,500万美元的预算。

4. My overriding concern is to raise the standards of state education.

我最关心的是提高国民教育水平。

5. Overriding all opposition, he followed a Right - opportunist petty - bourgeois policy.

他不顾一切反对, 执行小资产阶级右倾机会主义政策.