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get ahead

踔厉,出人头地,踔厉风发,领先

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v.动词 verb
  1. 1

    • : to be successful; prosper
    • : to surpass or excel

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Examples

  • In secret, before the referendum, the council went ahead and fluoridated the water anyway.

  • Bush busy engaging constituents on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate ahead of the 2004 presidential election.

  • In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?

  • They let us get ahead of the outfit, then the rest of the guys came in.

  • Everything was moving ahead smoothly, and continued to for the rest of the year.

  • Suddenly, however, he became aware of a small black spot far ahead in the very middle of the unencumbered track.

  • The thought seemed to produce the dreaded object, for next moment a large hummock appeared right ahead.

  • But there was no shadow ahead of him this night; there was no somber thing to bend down the high serenity of his happy heart.

  • Neither of us spoke again, and at length the squat log buildings of Pend d' Oreille loomed ahead of us in the night.

  • I've been sailing one way for ever so long, because I don't know how to turn around; but there's a landing-place just ahead.

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