Excel
[ɪk'sel;ek-] or [ɪk'sɛl]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.
(v. t.) To exceed or go beyond; to surpass.
(v. i.) To surpass others in good qualities, laudable actions, or acquirements; to be distinguished by superiority; as, to excel in mathematics, or classics.
校對:奥斯瓦德
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Surpass, outdo, beat, be superior to, cast in the shade, throw into the shade.[2]. Exceed, transcend, cap, go beyond.
v. n. Be superior, be eminent, bear the palm, bear the bell, take precedence.
厄纳校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to be superior to: to exceed: to surpass.—v.i. to have good qualities in a high degree: to perform very meritorious actions: to be superior:—pr.p. excel′ling; pa.p. excelled′.—ns. Ex′cellence Ex′cellency great merit: any excellent quality: worth: greatness: a title of honour given to persons high in rank or office.—adj. Ex′cellent surpassing others in some good quality: of great virtue worth &c.: superior: valuable.—adv. Ex′cellently.—adj. Excel′sior (L. comp.) higher still.
整理:纳特
例句/造句/用法:
- We are not apt to imagine our posterity will excel us, or equal our ancestors. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- To excel in any profession, in which but few arrive at mediocrity, it is the most decisive mark of what is called genius, or superior talents. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Montaigne is not more free and flowing, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is scarcely more graphic; neither does Bossuet excel him in poetical power. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- The _lighthouses_ of the century, in masonry, do not greatly excel in general principles those of preceding ones, as at Eddystone, designed by Smeaton. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Strength is a kind of power; and therefore the desire to excel in strength is to be considered as an inferior species of ambition. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Physically, she far excelled me: she was handsome; she was vigorous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The two pointed pieces of hard conducting carbon used for the separated terminals constitute the voltaic arc light--a light only excelled in intense brilliancy by the sun itself. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Those republics encouraged the acquisition of those exercises, by bestowing little premiums and badges of distinction upon those who excelled in them. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They excelled in horticulture, knowing how to graft and how to produce new varieties of fruit and flowers. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Caligula valued himself for being a notable dancer; and to deny that he excelled in that manly accomplishment was high treason. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Even these great instruments have now been excelled in the Grande Lunette, of the Paris Exposition, in 1900. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- At a later period in Germany, where the wood pulp art began, even this expeditious work has been excelled. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Another excels in making the frames and covers of their little huts or moveable houses. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- For light parcel system there is said to be no form of delivery that excels the motorcycle in speed and efficiency and nothing with operation costs so low. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- For picturesque detail it would not be easy to find any story excelling that of the Edison family before it reached the Western Reserve. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
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