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Outstrip Thing Outstripping Demand Make Productivity Ped 英

英语单词 outstrip
英美音标 英 [ˌaʊt'strɪp] 美 [ˌaʊt'strɪp]
中文释义 v.超过;跑过
英语例句 (1) It is a case of the student outstripping the teacher.
(2) Demand is outstripping current production.
(3) We soon outstripped the slower runners.
中文例句 (1) 这是一个学生超过老师的例子。
(2) 现在需求逐渐超过了生产能力。
(3) 我们很快就超过那些跑得慢的人。
vocabulary简明 While outstrip might make you think about undressing, it really means outdoing. If the productivity of your garden outstrips your neighbor's, expect the neighborhood to come calling for fresh vegetables.
vocabulary扩展 If one thing outstrips another, it exceeds it or goes beyond it. When you outstrip someone during a race, you pass them. When one company’s profits outstrip another’s, they make more money. When the productivity of one nation outstrips the neighboring nation, they will have a bigger Gross National Product.
柯林斯解释
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[VERB 动词]超过;胜过 If one thing outstrips another, the first thing becomes larger in amount, or more successful or important, than the second thing.
  [V n]
  • In the mid-eighteenth century the production of food far outstripped the rise in population...

    18世纪中叶食物的产量远远超过人口的增长。

  • In 1989 and 1990 demand outstripped supply, and prices went up by more than a third.

    1989年和1990年出现了供不应求的状况,物价上涨了三分之一还要多。

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