| 词汇 | outnumber |
| 释义 | outnumber verb[ T ] uk /ˌaʊtˈnʌm.bər/ us /ˌaʊtˈnʌm.bɚ/ C1 to be greater in number than someone or something: 在数量上超过，比…多 In our office the women outnumber the men three to one.我们办公室女性多于男性，比例为3比1。 Surpassing in quality or number catch catch (someone) up compare crown crush do something for an encoreidiom eclipse encore outcompete outdo outflank outgo outman put/leave someone in the shadeidiom shade shame steal a march on someoneidiom steal someone's thunderidiom surpass tower outnumber | American Dictionaryoutnumber verb[ T ] us/ˌɑʊtˈnʌm·bər/ to be greater in number than someone or something: Girls outnumbered boys by a margin of 2 to 1. Examples of outnumberoutnumber They were outnumbered by about four to one in what came to be a rather static war. Diet members' votes outnumbered those determined in prefectural chapters (many of which held primaries among party members). Overall, the shared concerns in this volume far outnumber the particular ones. There are almost 200 individual names listed in the index, and individuals are outnumbered by place references and organizations. The real case managers, however, are family members who far outnumber professionals in performing that function. During antibiotic treatment, sensitive strains are reduced or eliminated and the normally outnumbered resistant strains are more likely to grow. In all samples, the initiating dead males outnumber the females similarly defined. Comments by the women on the potential threat to independence and personal space outnumbered those by men by four to one. These, however, were outnumbered by the lower middle class. We expected that correct-noun choices would outnumber correct-adjective choices, at all levels of task performance except for the perfect one. These were easily outnumbered by the crowd lining the route, more curious than supportive. Juxtaposed with the above, and far outnumbering in frequency such references to the 'real world' outside, are endless stories of the miraculous events surrounding him. Moreover, widows outnumbered widowers even while women were still fecund and at risk of dying in childbirth. The proliferation of fingerprint bureaus in every local law enforcement agency had the effect of quickly outnumbering academically trained scientists. Men are found to outnumber women in the field. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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