0 to go further than what is considered acceptable or correct -- 超越，逾越（可以接受的或正确的限度）
The bad language in that show overstepped the limits/boundaries of what should be allowed on television. 那部电视剧里不雅的语言超出了电视上可允许的限度。
Banking officials had initially refused to release the records, arguing that investigators had overstepped their authority by asking for more information than they could legally require.
In addition, the extent to which the report oversteps the bounds for a document mapping a past period is unprecedented.
People may witness what they believe to be an instance of the police overstepping the mark.
The benefit allocation system overstepped its own regulations.
They were soldiers who were asked to be involved in that sort of campaign and who overstepped the mark.
In this particular case the competent military authority would appear to have overstepped the border line, and he has been so informed.
He oversteps his created limits.
In the euthanasia debate, overstepping boundaries is the danger, as it is in all growing technical wizardry over life and death decisions.
