overtake意思

1. 超过
2. 追上
3. 赶上
4. 压倒
5. 赶补（欠工）
6. 赶做（限期快到的工程）
7. 突然袭击
8. 打垮
9. 赶在...前面
10. 突然来到
11. 突然降临
12. 大于

1. catch up with and possibly overtake;

   "The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp"
   

2. travel past;

   "The sports car passed all the trucks"
   

3. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

1.超（车）；追上（前面的人）
If youovertake a vehicle or a person that is ahead of you and moving in the same direction, you pass them.

overtake的翻译

e.g. 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。
e.g. The red car was pulling out ready toovertake.
那辆红色汽车驶离车列准备超车。

2.赶上，超越（对手）
If someone or somethingovertakes a competitor, they become more successful than them.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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.（事件）出人意料地降临于…，突然发生在…身上
If an eventovertakes you, it happens unexpectedly or suddenly.

e.g. Tragedy was shortly toovertake him, however.
然而，不幸将很快降临到他的头上。

4.（情感等）压倒，使难以承受
If a feelingovertakes you, it affects you very strongly.

e.g. Something like panic overtook me...
一种恐慌的感觉袭裹了我。
e.g. 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。

• overtake the boat突然袭击了小船
• overtake sb's car超过某人的车
• overtake the city突然降临到这个城市

• overtake by遭到…的袭击
• overtake with被…吓垮

• Meeting or overtaking other couples.

  出自：E. Bowen

• He swung out sharply to overtake.

  出自：R. Hill

• Old ladies on bicycles were prone to overtake me on hills.

  出自：J. Raban

• Western Europe overtook North America as the world's largest car market.

  出自：Japan Times

1. overtake的基本含义是“超过”,指原本处于落后的一方逐渐与领先者缩小距离并实现超越,最终领先; 也可指在没有准备的情况下某事突然发生,即“突然来到”。
2. overtake可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,后接名词或代词作宾语。可用于被动结构。
3. overtake的过去式为overtook,过去分词为overtaken。