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

• I hurry to cross the river before the night overtakes me.
  我怕被黑夜赶上，急忙过河。
• 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。
• Overtakes Alcatel-Lucent to become world's No.3 mobile network gear maker, doubling its market share from a year ago, according to researcher Dell'Oro.
  超越阿尔卡特朗讯，成为世界第三大移动网络设备制造商，比一年前增加一倍的市场份额。
• He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
  睡懒觉的人一天都得忙晚都补不回来他的事情，虽然懒惰走的很慢，但是会使很快变的贫穷。
• The steps of his strength become short, and by his design destruction overtakes him.
  他坚强的脚步必见狭窄。自己的计谋必将他绊倒。
• "Japan's economic activity continues to be important to the rest of the world" even as China overtakes Japan in size, he said.
  他表示日本经济活动对世界其他地区的影响始终是重要的，即使中国在规模上超越了日本。
• The course of disease overtakes 7 days, Masculine leading is 44.18%;
  病程超过7天者，阳性率为44.18%；
• Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
  懒惰走得太慢，很快就被贫穷追上。
• 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。
• 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。