单词	excel
释义	excelex‧cel /ɪkˈsel/ verb (past tense and past participle excelled, present participle excelling) Word Origin WORD ORIGINexcel Origin: 1400-1500 Latin excellere, from -cellere ‘to rise, stick up’ Verb Table VERB TABLE excel Simple Form Present I, you, we, they excel he, she, it excels Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they excelled Present perfect I, you, we, they have excelled he, she, it has excelled Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had excelled Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will excel Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have excelled Continuous Form Present I am excelling he, she, it is excelling you, we, they are excelling Past I, he, she, it was excelling you, we, they were excelling Present perfect I, you, we, they have been excelling he, she, it has been excelling Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been excelling Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be excelling Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been excelling Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Costner has excelled himself in this movie - definitely his best performance yet. He played cricket for Middlesex but it was football that he really excelled at. I didn't exactly excel academically and I left school as soon as I had the chance. Many parents put too much pressure on their children to excel in school. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Alyse was a skilled rider and tried to help me with my technique, but I never excelled. He frequently rode and hunted, and enjoyed swimming, at which he excelled. Parallel distributed computing excels in perception, visualization, and simulation. Schools that excel and attract more students rarely grow or clone themselves. The kind of tasks it might excel at are assembling keyboards and putting gearboxes or electric motors together. You want your children to excel in sports? Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorto do something skilfully or carefully► do (something) well · Don't worry about the test - I'm sure you'll do well.· She enjoys her job and does it very well.· If a firm does a job well, we use them again. ► do a good job especially spoken to do something well, especially a job that you have been asked to do: · You can always rely on Brian to do a good job.· You're doing a good job there, Sally. I don't know what we'd do without you.do a good job of doing something: · They did a really good job of decorating my bathroom. ► make a good job of British to do something well, especially a piece of practical work, so that it looks good or works well: · The hairdresser made a good job of your hair. It looks lovely.· We've just had a new heating system installed, but unfortunately they didn't make a very good job of it. ► excel to do something much better than most other people, especially because you have a natural ability to do it well: · I didn't exactly excel academically and I left school as soon as I had the chance.excel at/in: · He played cricket for Middlesex but it was football that he really excelled at.· Many parents put too much pressure on their children to excel in school.excel yourself British (=do even better than usual): · Costner has excelled himself in this movie - definitely his best performance yet. ► outdo to be better or more successful than someone else at doing something: · The Canadian hockey team has outdone all its rivals.outdo somebody in something: · Each state seems to be trying to outdo its neighbors in cutting health services.outdo yourself (=do even better than usual): · The singer outdid himself at the festival, singing for almost three hours to noisy applause.not to be outdone (=so that no one else does better than you): · Not to be outdone, Stern went on television and made a speech of his own. ► distinguish yourself to do something very well, so that people notice you, praise you, and remember you: · Bradley has distinguished himself as the top scorer on the team.· After joining the newspaper, she quickly distinguished herself with a series of hard-hitting exposés. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB► in · And this is exactly the quality which Wordsworth excels in.· Producers such as these do not excel in only the great vintages.· They excelled in and developed the arts of building, of engineering and of town planning.· Among the commodities, which we could prove we excelled in is officeholders and politicians. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► excel yourself But he excelled himself last week. He was a chaser of the highest class, and had not other horses of unproven stamina excelled themselves in the National? In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers, Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward. It gives us the confidence to cope with other apparently insurmountable problems, knowing that we have excelled ourselves before. 3. Last week, Helen excelled herself - a black matt waterproof, lined, with a turn-back collar of fake ocelot! Miss Lodsworth, who organized the flower rota, had excelled herself. Sorrel excelled herself with the meal, although her father never mentioned it. Yuletide in Walford is traditionally a combat zone with crackers, but the soap excelled itself this year. Word family WORD FAMILYnounexcellenceExcellencyadjectiveexcellentverbexceladverbexcellently 1[intransitive, not in progressive] to do something very well, or much better than most peopleexcel at/in Rick has always excelled at foreign languages.2excel yourself British English to do something better than you usually do:  You have excelled yourself with the new exhibition.
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