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

• 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。
• When evil-doers are lifted up, men take cover; but when destruction overtakes them, the upright are increased.
  恶人兴起，人就躲藏。恶人败亡，义人增多。
• 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。
• 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。
• It would be an irony if India finally overtakes China in terms of headline growth just as the concept goes out of fashion.
  如果印度恰好是在整体增速的概念变得过时之际终于在整体增速上超过中国，那将是一大讽刺。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.
  你的衣襟揭起，你的脚跟受伤，是因你的罪孽甚多。
• 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。