| 单词 | superior |
| 释义 | superior (suːpɪəriəʳ ) Word forms: superiors 1. adjective If one thing or person is superior to another, the first is better than the second. We have a relationship infinitely superior to those of many of our friends. [+ to] ...a woman greatly superior to her husband in education and sensitivity. Long-term stock market investments have produced superior returns compared with cash deposits. Synonyms: better, higher, greater, grander superiority uncountable noun He asserts the superiority of free enterprise over other economic systems. [+ over/to] 2. adjective If you describe something as superior, you mean that it is good, and better than other things of the same kind. A few years ago it was virtually impossible to find superior quality coffee in local shops. Lulu was said to be of very superior intelligence. 3. adjective A superior person or thing is more important than another person or thing in the same organization or system. ...negotiations between the mutineers and their superior officers. Locally passed laws are of superior authority to those laws passed in the capital. Synonyms: higher-ranking, senior, higher-level, upper-level 4. countable noun Your superior in an organization that you work for is a person who has a higher rank than you. Other army units are completely surrounded and cut-off from communication with their superiors. The company president, and my immediate superior, was the dynamic Harry Stokes. 5. adjective If you describe someone as superior, you disapprove of them because they behave as if they are better, more important, or more intelligent than other people. [disapproval] Finch gave a superior smile. You can stand there and feel superior as you point and laugh at them. Synonyms: supercilious, patronizing, condescending, haughty superiority uncountable noun ...a false sense of his superiority over mere journalists. [+ over] Synonyms: supremacy, lead, advantage, excellence 6. adjective If one group of people has superior numbers to another group, the first has more people than the second, and therefore has an advantage over it. [formal] The demonstrators fled when they saw the authorities' superior numbers. His men were far superior numerically. 7. countable noun [poss NOUN, oft N in n] If you describe someone as your superior in a particular activity, you mean that they are better than you at that activity. [written] Anthony sometimes felt that his mistress was his superior in will-power. His rival was probably his superior in comic roles. Collocations: superior return But income drawdown plans, which hold out the hope of a superior return, have high charges that swallow 1.5% to 2% of the fund each year. Times, Sunday Times Needless to say, three years of superior returns are far from conclusive. Houston Chronicle Long-term analysis strongly indicates that smaller companies deliver superior returns, as do higher-yielding shares. Times, Sunday Times It found examples where a fund management company's ethical fund made superior returns compared with the mainstream version. Times, Sunday Times The investments that offer the greatest potential for superior returns over the longer term also come with the greatest risk of shortterm losses. Times, Sunday Times Superior technology has played a part, as well as the weather. Times, Sunday Times Investors would do so in the belief that the west's superior technology and systems would spark an economic surge in the developing world that would deliver large returns. Times, Sunday Times The superior technology has not only streamlined the application process but cut the cost of processing a mortgage application by about one third. Times, Sunday Times What the invaders brought with them though, apart from disease, was a vastly superior technology that the home teams didn't understand and never got to grips with. Times, Sunday Times Digital currency blogs and forums are awash with talk about new coins that are supposedly built with superior technology and boast faster transaction times and could net investors big profits. Times, Sunday Times Give me a decent, tasty côtes du rhône from a good producer over a dodgy, feral gigondas that just happens to have come from a supposedly superior appellation. Times, Sunday Times Beach football no more requires sunny conditions than its supposedly superior grass equivalent. Times, Sunday Times We always seem to do better against the supposedly superior sides and because a lot of people say we're going to lose, we've really got nothing to lose. Times, Sunday Times As a result consumers had been willing to pay more for the supposedly superior grape. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their energy allowed them to compete against opponents who were technically superior. Times, Sunday Times They were quicker and sharper, technically superior. Times, Sunday Times Ironically, this technically superior defence would have cost a trick. Times, Sunday Times These were technically superior and continue in production. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It made me feel ashamed of belonging to these overpowering, technically superior countries fighting against what seemed to me defenceless people. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Its vastly superior scale should enable it to charge lower prices than rivals. Times, Sunday Times The writing and the puppeteering became vastly superior to the early days, yet ratings declined, advertising dried up and the show eventually disappeared. Times,Sunday Times Better still, for twice the price of a dirt-cheap chook, a slower-grown free-range bird should taste vastly superior. Times, Sunday Times Four years on, he doesn't seem quite the magician he was then, and yet he considers himself vastly superior. Times, Sunday Times Again, the supporting literature was vastly superior to most spa hand-outs. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 优越的, 上司 Japanese: 優れた, 上役 |
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