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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• "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。
• This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all.
  在你一生虚空的年日，就是神赐你在日光之下虚空的年日，当同你所爱的妻，快活度日。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。