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词汇 outwit
释义 outwit
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌaʊtˈwɪt/ us /ˌaʊtˈwɪt/-tt-(alsooutsmart)
to get an advantage over someone by acting more cleverly and often by using a trick: (智力上)超过,胜过;智胜
In the story, the cunning fox outwits the hunters.在这个故事里,狡猾的狐狸智胜了猎人。
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outwit | American Dictionary


outwit
verb[ T ]
us/ˌɑʊtˈwɪt/-tt-
to obtain an advantage over someone by being more intelligent; to outsmart:
It is impossible to negotiate if one side feels that the other side is trying to outwit them.

Examples of outwit


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She escapes the fate of the preceding wives by either outwitting the villain or a timely rescue.
Responsible officials sometimes change their behavior in order to outwit the quantifiers.
The raven is known as acting as a scavenger, competing with and often outwitting the dogs and even the hunters.
You need to know that there are ways to outwit one's craving for crullers.
Our powers of visual and aural perception both outwit the current capabilities of multimedia computing systems and are also all too readily defeated by them.
Old women and identity maintenance : outwitting the grim reaper.
We therefore have a fool who on one hand eats a hawk because his master says it is good, but on the other can outwit a journeyman shoemaker.
Time is likely to cause the best-motivated personnel in the world to become lax and inattentive - not to mention the fact that they may be outwitted, bribed, or subverted.
At the outset, these factors represent conditioned obstacles to increasing utilisation, in that they have only partly been outwitted by the application of adequate technology, know-how, and operational navigational experience.
There is also an attempt to outwit the law by calling them magnifying glasses.
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On the contrary, the more you outwit them, within the rules of the game, the better player you are.
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But they are opponents, and the aim of each pair is to outwit their opponents.
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We all of us, in order to earn our livings, have to outwit somebody.
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As has been said in the debate, it is something that a trained agent can easily outwit and deal with.
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Had she not won the psychological struggle and outwitted him, she believes that she would not have escaped from her flat alive.
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