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

• Once the more rapid growth of China since 2011 is included in calculations, it overtakes the US in 2014.
  一旦将中国自2011年以来的更为快速的增长考虑在内，中国经济规模就会在2014年超过美国。
• The wise man has eyes in his head, while the fool walks in the darkness; but I came to realize that the same fate overtakes them both.
  智慧人的眼目光明，（光明原文作在他头上）愚昧人在黑暗里行。我却看明有一件事，这两等人都必遇见。
• 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。
• An ass lading with gold overtakes every thing.
  驮金的驴子无险阻。
• What employers need to know is that depression is real, the sufferer can do nothing about it and it overtakes at enormous speed.
  雇主需要知道的是，抑郁症确实存在，患病者对它无能为力，它发病的速度异常迅速。
• This article analysis it from three aspects, which is management, performance, audits and overtakes.
  本文从独立董事制度与管理层、企业业绩和财务审计、外部接管这三方面分析了独立董事制度存在的价值。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• I hurry to cross the river before the night overtakes me.
  我怕被黑夜赶上，急忙过河。