词汇 | overmatch |
释义 | overmatch verb[ T ] USuk /ˌəʊ.vəˈmætʃ/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈmætʃ/ to be larger in number, stronger, better, etc. than someone or something: 超过;胜过;击败 The rebels completely overmatched the police both in numbers and weapons.叛军在人数和武器上都完全超过了警方。 His writing overmatched his vocal ability as speechmaker.作为一位演讲人,他的文笔超过了口才。 The Redskins, with that good defense, will overmatch the Giants. He recognized that he and his men had been overmatched by the federal counterattack. 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 Examples of overmatchovermatch But the main gap seems to be caused by our savings in recent months overmatch- ing our investment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In internal and external conflict alike, the antagonist must act upon the protagonist and must seem at first to overmatch him or her. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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