overtakes

英 [ˌəʊvəˈteɪks]

美 [ˌoʊvərˈteɪks]

v.  超过; 赶上; (在数量或重要性方面)大于; (不愉快的事情)突然发生，突然降临
overtake的第三人称单数

柯林斯词典

• VERB 超（车）；追上（前面的人）
  If youovertakea vehicle or a person that is ahead of you and moving in the same direction, you pass them.
  1. 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。
  2. The red car was pulling out ready to overtake.
     那辆红色汽车驶离车列准备超车。

in AM, usually use 美国英语通常用 pass


• VERB 赶上，超越（对手）
  If someone or somethingovertakesa competitor, they become more successful than them.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
  3. Sales are booming in Japan, which has overtaken Britain as the Mini's biggest market.
     迷你车在日本的销量迅猛增长，使日本超过英国成为该车最大的消费市场。
• VERB （事件）出人意料地降临于…，突然发生在…身上
  If an eventovertakesyou, it happens unexpectedly or suddenly.
  1. Tragedy was shortly to overtake him, however.
     然而，不幸将很快降临到他的头上。
• VERB （情感等）压倒，使难以承受
  If a feelingovertakesyou, it affects you very strongly.
  1. Something like panic overtook me...
     一种恐慌的感觉袭裹了我。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• Overtakes Alcatel-Lucent to become world's No.3 mobile network gear maker, doubling its market share from a year ago, according to researcher Dell'Oro.
  超越阿尔卡特朗讯，成为世界第三大移动网络设备制造商，比一年前增加一倍的市场份额。
• "Japan's economic activity continues to be important to the rest of the world" even as China overtakes Japan in size, he said.
  他表示日本经济活动对世界其他地区的影响始终是重要的，即使中国在规模上超越了日本。
• Eventually, the exponential always catches up and overtakes the arithmetic progress.
  最终，指数数列总会赶上来，超过算数数列。
• Even after it overtakes Japan as the second largest economy, China will still be a developing nation for a long time to come.
  即便超越日本成为全球第二大经济体，在未来很长一段时间里，中国仍将是发展中国家。
• Back to the life I miss so much of never going to bed, but sleeping when sleep overtakes me in front of my computer, or with a guitar in my arms.
  回到我思念很久的生活-不睡觉、一直到累到快不行时就趴在计算机前睡的生活，或者是怀抱吉他入睡的日子。
• This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all.
  在你一生虚空的年日，就是神赐你在日光之下虚空的年日，当同你所爱的妻，快活度日。
• This point over here, the point at which the lines cross over, the pace of change overtakes the pace of learning, and for me, that is what I was describing when I was telling you about midnight.
  这点在这，两条线的交叉点，变化的幅度打败了学习的幅度，对于我来说，那就是我想要描述的，我早前给大家提到的变化发生的时刻。
• But it would be a mistake to assume that US leadership will simply end on the day – 20 years from now – when China's economy overtakes that of the US.
  但如果以为20年后中国经济超越美国时，美国就会丧失其领先地位，这种想法是错误的。
• As it overtakes America as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, its cavalier disregard of the global environment will become an ever-bigger issue in its foreign relations.
  中国将取代美国成为世界上最大的温室气体排放者，对全球环境的漠视将对它的对外关系上变成一个大问题。
• The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.
  他坚强的脚步必见狭窄。自己的计谋必将他绊倒。