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单词 outshine
释义
outshineout‧shine /aʊtˈʃaɪn/ verb (past tense and past participle outshone /aʊtˈʃɒn $ -ˈʃoʊn/) [transitive] Verb Table
VERB TABLE
outshine
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyoutshine
he, she, itoutshines
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyoutshone
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave outshone
he, she, ithas outshone
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad outshone
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill outshine
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have outshone
Continuous Form
PresentIam outshining
he, she, itis outshining
you, we, theyare outshining
PastI, he, she, itwas outshining
you, we, theywere outshining
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been outshining
he, she, ithas been outshining
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been outshining
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be outshining
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been outshining
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Kelly was outstanding and outshone every other player on the field.
  • Stone effortlessly outshines the other members of the cast.
  • The young Japanese violinist outshone every other musician at the concert.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But he has to go some to outshine Dean Richards, dropped for the second time in a year.
  • But she was definitely outshone by the peacock colours and silky materials of her companions.
  • Charest outshone Campbell with his performance in five televised debates during the campaign.
  • His fielding has outshone his power in this series, but his forbearance beats both.
  • In this respect, at least, John Eliot Gardiner's recording on Archiv far outshines the present one.
  • It narrowly beat much bigger rival and fellow supermarkets group J Sainsbury to the top slot, and outshone Tesco.
  • It was equally important to outshine everyone else around me - in other words, to achieve at the expense of others.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto reach a higher standard than someone or something else
· The British champion has completed the course in three minutes -- let's see if his Canadian rival can do better.do better than · If you are saving 5 percent of your income each year, you're doing better than most people.· Harris argued that the economy is doing better than it was five years ago.
to do better than someone you are competing with, especially because you want to prove that you are better: · Kids always try to outdo each other in attracting the teacher's attention.· Western Europe and Japan managed to outdo their American competitors in some economic areas.
written to be clearly more attractive, popular, or skilful than someone else: · The young Japanese violinist outshone every other musician at the concert.· Kelly was outstanding and outshone every other player on the field.
to perform with much greater skill or success than someone or something else: · For the third time this season, Celtic outclassed their local rivals, Rangers, last night.· There's never been a jet engine to outclass the Rolls Royce Avon.
to do very much better than someone or something else, especially when the person or thing you are competing with used to be of the same standard: · The new magazine's circulation of 210,000 outstrips that of all of its closest competitors.· Girls are now outstripping boys in all school subjects.
to develop or increase more quickly than someone or something else and become bigger, better, or more advanced than them: · The Clippers played better in the second half but couldn't overtake the Rockets and lost by eight points.· Some are predicting that India could overtake China as the world's most populous country before 2050.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounshineshininessverbshineoutshineadjectiveshiny
to be better or more impressive than someone or something else:  Several new players outshone the veterans.
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