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

• 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
• But it would be a mistake to assume that US leadership will simply end on the day – 20 years from now – when China's economy overtakes that of the US.
  但如果以为20年后中国经济超越美国时，美国就会丧失其领先地位，这种想法是错误的。
• An ass lading with gold overtakes every thing.
  驮金的驴子无险阻。
• Eventually, the exponential always catches up and overtakes the arithmetic progress.
  最终，指数数列总会赶上来，超过算数数列。
• "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。
• 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。
• See now, your servant has had grace in your eyes and great is your mercy in keeping my life from destruction, but I am not able to get as far as the mountain before evil overtakes me and death;
  你仆人已经在你眼前蒙恩。你又向我显出莫大的慈爱，救我的性命。我不能逃到山上去，恐怕这灾祸临到我，我便死了。
• 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。
• 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。
• Back to the life I miss so much of never going to bed, but sleeping when sleep overtakes me in front of my computer, or with a guitar in my arms.
  回到我思念很久的生活-不睡觉、一直到累到快不行时就趴在计算机前睡的生活，或者是怀抱吉他入睡的日子。