Overtake

(verb.) catch up with and possibly overtake; 'The Rolls Royce caught us near the exit ramp'.

手打:鲁迪

• You may run on, Fanny, he said to the housemaid; we shall overtake you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Come, he added, jump into my car, we must overtake your father, they are only a little way ahead. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Before I could overtake him he had sprung to the rail and hurled himself headforemost into the awful depths below. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Overtake him; bring him back instantly! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The torpedo boat destroyer is a larger and swifter boat, whose special duty it is to overtake and destroy this dangerous little fighter. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Because, from his bedroom window, he saw the flight of the boy, because he wished to overtake him and bring him back. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I walked on so fast that even he could hardly have overtaken me had he tried. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He had remained on that three-foot path, with sheer wall on one side and sheer drop on the other, until his enemy had overtaken him. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• She had wintered at Davos Platz, and was journeying now to join her friends at Lucerne, when a sudden hemorrhage had overtaken her. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He was vigorously pursued, and was overtaken at Cassville on the 19th, but during the ensuing night retreated across the Etowah. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Then, having left the door open behind him, he was leading the horse away over the moor, when he was either met or overtaken by the trainer. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Guardian, said I, do you remember, when we were overtaken by the thunder-storm, Lady Dedlock's speaking to you of her sister? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But before extinction overtook them, even the Neanderthalers learnt much and went far. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He overtook them too late. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The engaging young Barnacle was the first arrival; but Bar overtook him on the staircase. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I--I knew nothing of that; I was going to inquire the truth of the story when you overtook me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• The horsemen, therefore, soon overtook them on the road. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I rapidly overtook it, and then, keeping at a discreet distance of a hundred yards or so, I followed its lights until we were clear of the town. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• We have been very happy, John Carter, she said, and I thank whatever fate overtakes us that it permits us to die together. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• When death overtakes me my heart shall have ceased to beat; but what comes after that I know not. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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