| 词汇 | pull-ahead |
| 释义 | pull aheadphrasal verb with pullverb[ T ]uk /pʊl/us to start to do well or to do better than someone else: It was slow at first, but we're starting to pull ahead. pull ahead of sb/sthAfter a disappointing year, the company is finally pulling ahead of the competition once more. Examples of pull aheadpull ahead General racing terms include draft (to follow [someone] closely so as to reduce your wind drag) and drop (to pullahead of the other racers). We need to pull up rapidly and to pullahead in research and development to make good the oil revenues that will now decline. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But, jump into your boat, boy, and pullahead of us. From Project Gutenberg I endeavoured to pullahead, saying nothing, merely calling to the dog to come on; but she, perceiving a trail of some kind, hesitated too. From Project Gutenberg The boat shoved off, but had to pullahead of the ship. From Project Gutenberg 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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