Overtake
[əʊvə'teɪk] or [,ovɚ'tek]
解释:
(verb.) catch up with and possibly overtake; 'The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp'.
手打:鲁迪--From WordNet
解释:
(v. t.) To come up with in a course, pursuit, progress, or motion; to catch up with.
(v. t.) To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to capture; to overcome.
(v. t.) Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken), drunken.
校对:苏西
同义词及近义词:
v. a. Catch, come up with.
巴贝奇录入
解释:
v.t. to come up with: to catch: to come upon: to take by surprise.—p.adj. Overtā′ken fuddled.
杰西卡校对
例句:
- You may run on, Fanny, he said to the housemaid; we shall overtake you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Come, he added, jump into my car, we must overtake your father, they are only a little way ahead. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Before I could overtake him he had sprung to the rail and hurled himself headforemost into the awful depths below. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- Overtake him; bring him back instantly! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The torpedo boat destroyer is a larger and swifter boat, whose special duty it is to overtake and destroy this dangerous little fighter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Because, from his bedroom window, he saw the flight of the boy, because he wished to overtake him and bring him back. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- I walked on so fast that even he could hardly have overtaken me had he tried. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- He had remained on that three-foot path, with sheer wall on one side and sheer drop on the other, until his enemy had overtaken him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- She had wintered at Davos Platz, and was journeying now to join her friends at Lucerne, when a sudden hemorrhage had overtaken her. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- He was vigorously pursued, and was overtaken at Cassville on the 19th, but during the ensuing night retreated across the Etowah. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Then, having left the door open behind him, he was leading the horse away over the moor, when he was either met or overtaken by the trainer. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- Guardian, said I, do you remember, when we were overtaken by the thunder-storm, Lady Dedlock's speaking to you of her sister? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- But before extinction overtook them, even the Neanderthalers learnt much and went far. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He overtook them too late. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- The engaging young Barnacle was the first arrival; but Bar overtook him on the staircase. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I--I knew nothing of that; I was going to inquire the truth of the story when you overtook me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- The horsemen, therefore, soon overtook them on the road. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I rapidly overtook it, and then, keeping at a discreet distance of a hundred yards or so, I followed its lights until we were clear of the town. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- We have been very happy, John Carter, she said, and I thank whatever fate overtakes us that it permits us to die together. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- When death overtakes me my heart shall have ceased to beat; but what comes after that I know not. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
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