overtake
英 [əʊvə'teɪk]
美[,ovɚ'tek]
- vt. 赶上；压倒；突然来袭
- vi. 超车
词态变化
第三人称单数: overtakes;过去式: overtook;过去分词: overtaken;现在分词: overtaking;
助记提示
1、over- "above, beyond; across" + take.
中文词源
overtake 超过
over-,在上，超过，take,拿，取。
英英释意
- 1. catch up with and possibly overtake;
- "The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp"
- 2. travel past;
- "The sports car passed all the trucks"
- 3. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli
英文词源
- overtake (v.)
- "to come up to, to catch in pursuit," early 13c., from over- + take (v.). According to OED, originally "the running down and catching of a fugitive or beast of chase"; it finds the sense of over- in this word "not so clear." Related: Overtaken; overtaking. Old English had oferniman "to take away, carry off, seize, ravish."
考试真题
- The sugar industry is overtaking alcohol and tobacco business in generating profits.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- It has overtaken that of the United States.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- As a result, their math grades overtook those of the other students by the end of the first semester—and the gap between the two groups continued to widen during the two years we followed them.
出自-2016年12月阅读原文
- Decades ago, Kodak anticipated that digital photography would overtake film — and in fact, Kodak invented the first digital camera in 1975 — but in a fateful decision, the company chose to shelf its new discovery to focus on its traditional film business.
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- By the late 1960s, that term was overtaken by Black.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
- Some Asian countries have overtaken America in basic sciences.
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实用场景例句
- He pulled out to overtake a truck.
- 他驶出车流，以超过一辆卡车。
牛津词典
- It's dangerous to overtake on a bend.
- 在弯道强行超车是危险的。
牛津词典
- Nuclear energy may overtake oil as the main fuel.
- 核能可能会超过石油成为主要燃料。
牛津词典
- We mustn't let ourselves be overtaken by our competitors.
- 我们决不能让竞争对手超过我们。
牛津词典
- The climbers were overtaken by bad weather.
- 登山者突然遭遇了恶劣天气。
牛津词典
- Sudden panic overtook her.
- 她突然感到一阵恐慌。
牛津词典
- Our original plan was overtaken by events (= the situation changed very rapidly) and we had to make a new one.
- 我们原来的计划没赶上变化，只好再订一个新的。
牛津词典
- When he eventually overtook the last truck he pulled over to the inside lane...
- 他终于超过了最后那辆卡车后便驶回了内车道。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- The red car was pulling out ready to overtake.
- 那辆红色汽车驶离车列准备超车。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- It's the first time at these games that the Americans have overtaken the Cubans...
- 这是美国人在这一运动会上首次超越古巴人。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Lung cancer has now overtaken breast cancer as a cause of death for women in the US...
- 肺癌现在已经取代乳腺癌成为美国女性的一大杀手。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Tragedy was shortly to overtake him, however.
- 然而，不幸将很快降临到他的头上。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Something like panic overtook me...
- 一种恐慌的感觉袭裹了我。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- From the moment Edward had told her of the escape attempt, she had been overtaken by a sense of impending doom.
- 自从爱德华告诉她打算逃跑的那一刻起，她便强烈感到厄运在一步步逼近。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- We know instinctively, just as bookeepers with their bees that misfortune might overtake us if the important events of our lives were not related to it.
- 正如养蜂人与蜜蜂的关系一样,我们本能地懂得如果我们不把自己生活中重大事件告诉它的话,不幸的事情就会袭击我们.
《用法词典》
- Compare with, learn from and overtake the advanced and help those who are less advanced.
- 比, 学,赶,帮.
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- The car pulled out to overtake the lorry.
- 小汽车开出车道去超那辆卡车.
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- But death did not overtake the sons of Korah.
- 然而可拉的众子没有死亡.
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- Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity, and afraid of being overtake.
- 时髦,是逃亡自庸俗而又惟恐被?上的假斯文.
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- We to overtake the last train.
- 我们设法赶上了末班火车.
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- Tell me, how can you overtake the LAST person?
- 告诉我, 你怎能追过最后一名?
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- We know instinctively, just as beekeepers with their bees that misfortune might overtake us if the important events of our lives were not related to it.
- 我们本能地懂得, 正如养蜂人对待蜜蜂一样,如果不把我们生活中的重大事件告诉这条河,我们就会遭到厄运的袭击.
《用法词典》
- NIV Pour out your wrath on them; let your fierce anger overtake them.
- 24[和合]求你将你的恼恨,倒在他们身上, 叫你的烈怒,追上他们.
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- He made a fast finishing burst and overtake the leaders on the home straight.
- 他快速做最后的冲刺,在冲刺线前超过了领先者.
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