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outdone

/out-doo/US // ˌaʊtˈdu //UK // (ˌaʊtˈduː) //

过时,过时的,过气的,过气

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    out·did, out·done, out·do·ing.

    • : to surpass in execution or performance: The cook outdid himself last night.

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Examples

  • Not to be outdone, London Marathon race director Hugh Brasher announced that he hopes to see 50,000 people running through the streets of the British capital this fall.

  • The Nationals believe he will outdo the expectations for his bat.

  • Each extreme needed to outperform the other by raising the stakes, outdoing the other by escalating and inventing new acts of extremism.

  • Not to be outdone, the Los Angeles Rams were handed a loss by the hapless New York Jets on Sunday.

  • In 2020, we all gained a new appreciation for the power of storytelling, amid a news cycle that seemed determined to outdo itself every week.

  • When they subsequently managed to fingerprint her, she seemed to have outdone Dillinger.

  • Not to be outdone, North Korea bans all religious practice of any kind.

  • Not to be outdone, South Korea has a small drone of its own, one with perhaps the best drone name ever: Devil Killer.

  • President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry, and the State Department were not to be outdone by their domestic critics.

  • The co-stars of Pineapple Express and Freaks and Geeks have really outdone themselves this time.

  • The host, not to be outdone, was sitting with his feet on the railing of the stove, but as far from the spittoon as possible.

  • All the knights swore that he had outdone all the cavaliers of the tourney, and must receive the chief prize.

  • An Indian chief, excelling all his tribe at a war-dance, could not have outdone the grotesque movements of the colonel.

  • Long before Mr. Gladstone had concluded, everyone admitted that the effect of Mr. Disraeli's speech had been outdone and outshone.

  • Not to be outdone in courtesy, the French police soon escorted him to the official lodging-house.