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surpass vt.超越；胜过 (1) 人在爱中超越自我。(2) 你在这幅画的创作上似乎超越了你自己。(3) 温柔甜蜜世无双。(4) 要在速度上胜过艾文斯很难。 Some words seem to exist just to give an extra oomph to your speech, and surpass is one of these. While you could just say passed or even outdid" saying surpass seems to indicate that a person (or some other thing that performs, like a company) has really gone beyond anything you anticipated. People tend to use this word a lot before the words expectations and predictions among others, because of course surpassing is all about "surpassing something."

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英 [sə'pɑːs] 美 [sər'pæs] (1) To be in love is to surpass oneself.(2) You seem to surpass yourself in this painting.(3) Her sweetness nothing can surpass.(4) It is hard to surpass Evans in speed. To surpass means to outdo someone or something, to go beyond what was expected. If you do better than you think you will, you will surpass your own expectations. 1[VERB 动词]超过；胜过；优于 If one person or thing surpasses another, the first is better than, or has more of a particular quality than, the second.   [V n]  [V-ed]He was determined to surpass the achievements of his older brothers...他决心超越几个哥哥的成就。Warwick Arts Centre is the second largest Arts Centre in Britain, surpassed in size only by London's Barbican.沃里克艺术中心是英国第二大艺术中心，规模仅次于伦敦的巴比肯。2[VERB 动词]远远超出(预期) If something surpasses expectations, it is much better than it was expected to be.   [V n]Conrad Black gave an excellent party that surpassed expectations.康拉德·布莱克举办了一次远超人们预期的精彩聚会。3[VERB 动词]超出(理解范围) If something surpasses understanding, it is too difficult to understand.   [V n]...a clever and spectacularly successful system, the detailed complexity of which surpasses our full understanding.一个设计巧妙且极其成功的系统，其复杂的细节非我辈所能完全理解

英语单词	surpass
英美音标	英 [sə'pɑːs] 美 [sər'pæs]
中文释义	vt.超越；胜过
英语例句	(1) To be in love is to surpass oneself. (2) You seem to surpass yourself in this painting. (3) Her sweetness nothing can surpass. (4) It is hard to surpass Evans in speed.
中文例句	(1) 人在爱中超越自我。 (2) 你在这幅画的创作上似乎超越了你自己。 (3) 温柔甜蜜世无双。 (4) 要在速度上胜过艾文斯很难。
vocabulary简明	To surpass means to outdo someone or something, to go beyond what was expected. If you do better than you think you will, you will surpass your own expectations.
vocabulary扩展	Some words seem to exist just to give an extra oomph to your speech, and surpass is one of these. While you could just say passed or even outdid" saying surpass seems to indicate that a person (or some other thing that performs, like a company) has really gone beyond anything you anticipated. People tend to use this word a lot before the words expectations and predictions among others, because of course surpassing is all about "surpassing something."
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]超过；胜过；优于 If one person or thing surpasses another, the first is better than, or has more of a particular quality than, the second. [V n] [V-ed] He was determined to surpass the achievements of his older brothers... 他决心超越几个哥哥的成就。 Warwick Arts Centre is the second largest Arts Centre in Britain, surpassed in size only by London's Barbican. 沃里克艺术中心是英国第二大艺术中心，规模仅次于伦敦的巴比肯。 2 [VERB 动词]远远超出(预期) If something surpasses expectations, it is much better than it was expected to be. [V n] Conrad Black gave an excellent party that surpassed expectations. 康拉德·布莱克举办了一次远超人们预期的精彩聚会。 3 [VERB 动词]超出(理解范围) If something surpasses understanding, it is too difficult to understand. [V n] ...a clever and spectacularly successful system, the detailed complexity of which surpasses our full understanding. 一个设计巧妙且极其成功的系统，其复杂的细节非我辈所能完全理解

Surpass Verb 动词 [V N Expectations Words Person