Outstrip

(v. t.) To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.

编辑:卢克

• All the time, our overfraught hearts are beating at a rate that would far outstrip the fastest gallop of the fastest horses ever foaled. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Jo drew a long breath and unclasped her hands as she watched the poor fellow trying to outstrip the trouble which he carried in his heart. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Bingley and Jane, however, soon allowed the others to outstrip them. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• That the United States has from the beginning far outstripped the rest of the civilized world in the growth of the telephone is shown by comparison. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Marianne was astonished to find how much the imagination of her mother and herself had outstripped the truth. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Nature at another point had outstripped him, yet he had broadened his own sum of knowledge to a prodigious extent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Robert Fulton’s friend, the Duke of Bridgewater, had been of some help with his canal system, but the trade quickly outstripped this service. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They soon outstripped the others, and when they had reached the carriage, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner were half a quarter of a mile behind. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I ran the same way, outstripping a good many, and soon came facing the wild sea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The young are seldom in Elysium, for their desires, outstripping possibility, leave them as poor as a moneyless debtor. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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