| 释义 |
outˈsing, v.
[out- 18, 14, 15.]
1. trans. To excel in singing. Also refl.
1603Breton Dignitie of Man (1879) 14/2 In sweetnesse the Nightingale [will] outsing him. 1733Swift On Poetry, How wrong a taste prevails among us; How much our ancestors out-sung us. 1878J. Todhunter Alcestis (1879) 9 Our old Chrysippus, His eyes aglow with an immortal fire, Vows to outsing himself. 'Twill be rare singing.
b. To overcome or get the better of by singing.
1830Miss Mitford Village Ser. iv. (1863) 222 She would sing over the mashing tub..out-singing Martha's scolding. 1885Athenæum 19 Sept. 378/3 Each appeared to be trying to outsing the other.
2. a. intr. To sing out; to burst out into song. b. trans. To express by singing.
1877Whittier Witch of Wenham 226 The meadow-lark outsang. 1886Good Words 308 This joy the birds outsing. |