overbook [əuvə'buk]

接受超额预订（不及物动词）

(intransitive verb) To accept more reservations for a service or for space than actually can be accommodated.

EXAMPLE: Some restaurants overbook on holidays because they assume some people who make reservations will not appear.

一些餐馆在节假日接受超额预订，因为他们认为有些预订者不会来。

to bite the dust

完蛋（俚语）

(Slang) Expression meaning to die.

EXAMPLE: Despite forty years of success, my family's small business stopped making a profit last year, and I think next year it may bite the dust.

我家族的小企业尽管 40 年来一直很成功，但是去年已不再有利润，我想明年它可能就完蛋了。