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词汇 outrun
释义 outrun
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌaʊtˈrʌn/ us /ˌaʊtˈrʌn/present participleoutrunning | past tenseoutran | past participleoutrun
to move faster or further than someone or something: 比…跑得快(或远)
The men easily outran the police officer who was chasing them.小偷跑得很快,轻而易举地甩掉了追赶他们的警察。
to develop faster or further than something: 发展得比…快;超过,胜过
In the future, demand for tungsten will outrun supply.将来钨会供不应求。
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outrun | American Dictionary


outrun
verb[ T ]
us/ˌɑʊtˈrʌn/present participleoutrunning | past tenseoutranus/ˌɑʊtˈræn/ | past participleoutrun
to run faster than someone, or to increase faster or do better than something:
Martha can outrun everyone on the team.

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Employing a precise knowledge of the local geography of infection, they segregated sick animals and used their mobility to outrun epidemics.
Once again, events have outrun language, have rendered it inadequate.
Intuition will always outrun linguistic description.
Racial dominance was a matter of cultivating a society's life-sustaining forces, contained in its ethical systems, in order to outrun the destructive forces of self-assertive rationalism in the social system.
The properties outrun their conceptual presentations.
Take the question of how far our consumption is outrunning our production, and how far we are eating into stocks.
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In the years 1945, 1946 and 1947 the administrative machine outran the building machine.
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The victorious army outruns its communications, and it has to wait until these are built up behind it.
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I think also of the indiscreet supporter, he may be on one side or the other, whose zeal outruns his discretion.
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Last year, in the course of this laudable ambition, it seriously outran its expenditure.
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I think we all recognise that there is a danger of political development always outrunning economic development.
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Hostility to the status quo often rather outruns the research or factual base on which it is placed.
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Demand frequently outran supply, but the general tendency was for that demand to be met by new pits coming into supply.
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Everybody knows the effect of total expenditure outrunning savings and if there is more demand for labour than can be satisfied by the existing supply.
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There is always the desire to give information, and sometimes that even outruns discretion.
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