| 词汇 | outnumbered |
| 释义 | outnumbered past simple and past participle ofoutnumber 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 (someone) up compare crown crush do something for an encoreidiom eclipse encore outcompete outdo outflank outgo outman push the envelopeidiom put/leave someone in the shadeidiom shade shame steal steal a march on someoneidiom steal someone's thunderidiom surpass Examples of outnumberedoutnumbered In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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). There are almost 200 individual names listed in the index, and individuals are outnumbered by place references and organizations. During antibiotic treatment, sensitive strains are reduced or eliminated and the normally outnumbered resistant strains are more likely to grow. 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. Moreover, widows outnumbered widowers even while women were still fecund and at risk of dying in childbirth. Transitions to non-competition outnumbered transitions to competition at each level of urbanization, but the phenomenon of non-competition is primarily a rural one. The army has not yet explained why so many of its soldiers died when they outnumbered the enemy. In reference to given information, their use of non-lexical forms outnumbered that of lexical forms across age periods. When incidents occurred in small, local markets and grocery stores, successful lootings outnumbered rebuffed attempts by nearly three to one. On the basis of the grave goods, the number of men's graves outnumbered those of women. Largely outnumbered, they were repelled after very brief fighting. Substantially outnumbered, they could not hope to determine public policy at a time when crucial precedents would be set. If the issue was clerical power, the clergy were outnumbered twenty-to-one by the gentry. 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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