Outdo

例句:

• They were scheming to outdo one another, to rob weaker contemporaries, to destroy rivals, so that they might for a brief interval swagger. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The world seems to have become settled in the belief, long ago, that it is not possible for human genius to outdo this creation of da Vinci's. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He was no mocking-bird of praise, to try because another extolled what he reverenced and passionately loved, to outdo him in laudation. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• If we do not outdo Ecclesford, we do nothing. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• But this time I mean to outdo him in breadth of intention. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Who does not know how our great men are outdoing themselves, in declaiming against the _foreign_ slave-trade. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• He snatched at a premature popularity by outdoing his father's patriotic and aggressive attitudes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In manufactures they outdid the world in variety and beauty of design and perfection of workmanship. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Realists outdid the vulgar tendency to exaggerate the significance of class. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• You will hardly bear to be long outdone by Jane. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Jim's, not to be outdone, would affix bows and rosettes everywhere. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Not wishing to be outdone in courtesy, he immediately sent me the countersign for his regiment for the night. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The little citizen, not to be outdone, declared her to be a celestial witness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The la tter laid much stress, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, on the med icinal properties of plants, but in this respect he was outdone by Dioscorides (as well as by Pliny). 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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