overtake 的 2 个定义
o·ver·took [oh-ver-took], /ˌoʊ vərˈtʊk/, o·ver·tak·en, o·ver·tak·ing.
- to catch up with in traveling or pursuit; draw even with: By taking a cab to the next town, we managed to overtake and board the train.
- to catch up with and pass, as in a race; move by: He overtook the leader three laps from the finish.
- to move ahead of in achievement, production, score, etc.; surpass: to overtake all other countries in steel production.
- to happen to or befall someone suddenly or unexpectedly, as night, a storm, or death: The pounding rainstorm overtook them just outside the city.
o·ver·took [oh-ver-took], /ˌoʊ vərˈtʊk/, o·ver·tak·en, o·ver·tak·ing.
- to pass another vehicle: Never overtake on a curve.
overtake 近义词
catch; pass
更多overtake例句
- Print revenues are a bleaker picture, contributing to The Wall Street Journal reporting that digital ad revenues have overtaken print for the first time.
- You also forecast that, by 2035, China will overtake the United States as the largest economy.
- Both executives have helped steer the company through its digital transformation and, in the second quarter, its digital revenue overtook its print revenue for the first time.
- That level of error correction should noticeably extend the time before errors overtake the qubit.
- In short, experimental science needs to overtake the observational science that has dominated the field.
- Their role, Sudani said, is not to overtake the Iraqi military but to help it.
- Uganda has intervened on the side of the Government of South Sudan, including providing air support to overtake opposition forces.
- This year, as CNBC reports, technology could overtake apparel as the go-to gift.
- If the recount would have continued on Dec. 9, Gore would not have picked up enough overvotes to overtake Bush.
- When he finally goes to see a dentist, he learns that he has an abscess: the tooth is rotten, threatening to overtake his jaw.
- On the broken porch of the abandoned house Amy stopped and waited for her chum to overtake her.
- In tax-paying circles it is said that the fashionable thing will be to start now and let the airship overtake you if it can.
- The laws of the Church of God remain immutable, amid the changes that overtake the various communities of men.
- Walk while ye have the light that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.
- Moreover, he continued his swift course, always approaching and tending to overtake the slower bodies that preceded him, viz.