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

• 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。
• There it will remain until, catastrophe or stagnation aside, it overtakes the US to become Number One.
  中国将在这个位置上呆下去，直到超越美国成为老大&除非遭遇大灾难或经济停滞。
• Of course, we are fully aware that whoever overtakes will feel the headwind, and whoever leads the way will bear responsibility.
  当然，我们清楚地意识到，赶超者将逆风前行，领先者将承担责任。
• Among the religion criticism, Marx accepts the religion criticism of Feuerbach, and overtakes Feuerbach, Puts forward political liberty and human liberty.
  在宗教批判中，马克思既肯定了费尔巴哈对宗教的批判，又超越了费尔巴哈，提出政治解放和人类解放。
• 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。
• Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
  懒惰走得太慢，很快就被贫穷追上。
• 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。
• NO11: If any country overtakes india half of the indians will not come to know what is happening here
  翻译：如果哪个国家拿下了印度，半数印度人都不知道发生了什么事
• I hurry to cross the river before the night overtakes me.
  我怕被黑夜赶上，急忙过河。
• Sometimes the INJ's private world overtakes the INJ to the point that they completely tune out their environment.
  有时INJ完全沉浸在自己的内部世界中，以至于关掉了对环境的感应。