| 释义 |
outˈdistance, v.
[out- 18 b.]
trans. To leave completely behind (in a race; hence, in any competition or career); to outstrip: cf. distance v. 4, 4 d.
1857Trollope Barchester T. xxxviii. (1858) 320 Why do you let the Slopes..out-distance you? 1869Daily News 22 May, [In the three miles walking match, he] so soon out⁓distanced his opponents, that they did not think it worth while to compete further with him. 1890L. D'Oyle Notches 113 At last our pursuers were outdistanced. 1898T. Adamson Stud. Mind in Christ vii. 171 They felt themselves out⁓distanced by His ideas, even when they saw into them. |