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

• 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。
• 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。
• Try this technique to stop rising anger before it overtakes you.
  用下面的技巧来帮助你在愤怒占领高地之前停止愤怒。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 course of disease overtakes 7 days, Masculine leading is 44.18%;
  病程超过7天者，阳性率为44.18%；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。