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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.
  懒惰走得太慢，很快就被贫穷追上。
• 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。
• Even after it overtakes Japan as the second largest economy, China will still be a developing nation for a long time to come.
  即便超越日本成为全球第二大经济体，在未来很长一段时间里，中国仍将是发展中国家。
• 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。
• An ass lading with gold overtakes every thing.
  驮金的驴子无险阻。
• 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。