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VERB
超（車）；追上（前面的人）
If you overtake a vehicle or a person that is ahead of you and moving in the same direction, you pass them.
例句
When he eventually overtook the last truck he pulled over to the inside lane...
他終于超過了最后那輛卡車后便駛回了內(nèi)車道。
The red car was pulling out ready to overtake.
那輛紅色汽車駛離車列準(zhǔn)備超車。
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VERB
趕上，超越（對(duì)手）
If someone or something overtakes a competitor, they become more successful than them.
例句
It's the first time at these games that the Americans have overtaken the Cubans...
這是美國人在這一運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì)上首次超越古巴人。
Lung cancer has now overtaken breast cancer as a cause of death for women in the US...
肺癌現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)取代乳腺癌成為美國女性的一大殺手。
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VERB
（事件）出人意料地降臨于…，突然發(fā)生在…身上
If an event overtakes you, it happens unexpectedly or suddenly.
例句
Tragedy was shortly to overtake him, however.
然而，不幸將很快降臨到他的頭上。
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VERB
（情感等）壓倒，使難以承受
If a feeling overtakes you, it affects you very strongly.
例句
Something like panic overtook me...
一種恐慌的感覺襲裹了我。
From the moment Edward had told her of the escape attempt, she had been overtaken by a sense of impending doom.
自從愛德華告訴她打算逃跑的那一刻起，她便強(qiáng)烈感到厄運(yùn)在一步步逼近。