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单词 outrun
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outrun
verb[T]
uk
/ˌaʊtˈrʌn/us
/ˌaʊtˈrʌn/
present participleoutrunning|past tenseoutran|past participleoutrun
tomovefasterorfurtherthan someone or something:
比…跑得快（或远）
The meneasilyoutran thepoliceofficerwho waschasingthem.小偷跑得很快，轻而易举地甩掉了追赶他们的警察。
todevelopfasterorfurtherthan something:
发展得比…快；超过，胜过
In thefuture,demandfortungstenwill outrunsupply.将来钨会供不应求。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Surpassing in quality or number
  • beat
  • catch
  • catch(someone)up
  • compare
  • crown
  • crush
  • dosomethingfor an encoreidiom
  • eclipse
  • encore
  • outcompete
  • outdo
  • outflank
  • outgo
  • outman
  • push the envelopeidiom
  • put/leavesomeonein the shadeidiom
  • shame
  • steal a march onsomeoneidiom
  • stealsomeone'sthunderidiom
  • surpass
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Moving quickly
Winning, losing & scoring in sport
(Definition ofoutrunfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

outrun| American Dictionary

outrun
verb[T]
us
/ˌɑʊtˈrʌn/
present participleoutrunning|past tenseoutranus/ˌɑʊtˈræn/|past participleoutrun
torunfasterthan someone, or toincreasefasteror dobetterthan something:
Martha can outrun everyone on theteam.
(Definition ofoutrunfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofoutrun

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Employing a precise knowledge of the local geography of infection, they segregated sick animals and used their mobility tooutrunepidemics.
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Once again, events haveoutrunlanguage, have rendered it inadequate.
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Intuition will alwaysoutrunlinguistic description.
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Racial dominance was a matter of cultivating a society's life-sustaining forces, contained in its ethical systems, in order tooutrunthe destructive forces of self-assertive rationalism in the social system.
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The propertiesoutruntheir conceptual presentations.
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Take the question of how far our consumption is outrunning our production, and how far we are eating into stocks.
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In the years 1945, 1946 and 1947 the administrative machine outran the building machine.
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The victorious army outruns its communications, and it has to wait until these are built up behind it.
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I think also of the indiscreet supporter, he may be on one side or the other, whose zeal outruns his discretion.
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Last year, in the course of this laudable ambition, it seriously outran its expenditure.
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I think we all recognise that there is a danger of political development always outrunning economic development.
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Hostility to the status quo often rather outruns the research or factual base on which it is placed.
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Demand frequently outran supply, but the general tendency was for that demand to be met by new pits coming into supply.
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Everybody knows the effect of total expenditure outrunning savings and if there is more demand for labour than can be satisfied by the existing supply.
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There is always the desire to give information, and sometimes that even outruns discretion.
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