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 outnumber [aut'nʌmbə]   添加此单词到默认生词本
vt. 数目超过, 比...多

  1. We were completely outnumbered by the enemy.
    在数量上我们完全被敌人压倒。
  2. Men outnumber women here in the ratio of three to one.
    此地男子数量以三比一超过女子。


outnumber
[ verb ]
be larger in number
<verb.stative>


Outnumber \Out*num"ber\, v. t.
To exceed in number; as, the garrison was badly outnumbered
by the attacking forces.

  1. Police sometimes outnumber spectators.
  2. Advancing issues outnumber declining ones about 3 to 2 on the NYSE, with 526 issues higher, 364 lower and 566 unchanged.
  3. Losers continued to outnumber gainers on the New York Stock Exchange with 817 down, 597 up and 536 unchanged.
  4. Opinion is slightly less favorable on current business conditions, and on expectations for the next six months. Those who fear there will be fewer jobs now outnumber those who expect there will be more.
  5. ANC leaders also must find ways to satsify the needs and aspirations of millions of impoverished blacks in South Africa, where blacks outnumber whites more than 5 to 1.
  6. But such efforts are relatively minuscule: The Japanese researchers studying at MIT alone outnumber the U.S. researchers studying at all Japanese schools.
  7. Residents of both communities were voting Sunday and Monday, and Mestre residents outnumber Venetians 3-1. Results were to be announced after the completion of voting.
  8. Their average age is probably in the low 20s, and youths with pimples definitely outnumber gray-haired veterans.
  9. But women outnumber men two-to-one between 80 and 84 and three-to-one between 90 and 94.
  10. Though the Kurds outnumber the Palestinians by a ratio of 5 to 1, the Kurdish cause has attracted little global attention.
  11. As a GOP hopeful running in a city where registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 5-1, Giuliani compared himself to Fiorello LaGuardia, another Italian-American and Republican who faced similar odds when he won the mayoralty in 1933.
  12. Equities International, a London newsletter, says the number of international stock indices from such firms will soon outnumber the markets being indexed.
  13. Western officials say that even with Gorbachev's promise in December to slash Soviet conventional forces by 500,000 troops and 50,000 tanks, the Warsaw Pact will still outnumber North Atlantic Treaty forces by two to one.
  14. The Democrats outnumber the Republicans on the committee 23-13, so whatever they agree upon is almost certain to clear the committee.
  15. Many expected General Motors of Canada Ltd. to be selected, since its 40,000 workers outnumber Chrysler Canada's by four-to-one.
  16. The compromise proposal has some support among Republicans, since those receiving tax cuts would outnumber those receiving tax increases by seven to one.
  17. Women still outlive and outnumber men in America, but improving life expectancy rates for males allowed their total number to increase faster than women during the 1980s for the first time since early in this century, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.
  18. Unemployed voters will outnumber employed voters 3-1 in the 1990 parliamentary election.
  19. On any given day, the lizards might outnumber the people in the tiny town of Eulo.
  20. But winners of the city's Democratic primaries will be heavy favorites for election in November, since Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 9-1 margin.
  21. Indeed, National Merit Scholarship winners at Transylvania outnumber those at some schools 20 times its size.
  22. Under the proposal, the holders of Dome's 359 million common shares would outnumber the holders of Dome's 5.8 million preferred shares.
  23. The only solution, they insisted, is for Britain to pull out of the province, where Protestants outnumber Catholics by 3-to-2.
  24. And they outnumber Republicans in state legislatures by better than 3-2 and show no signs of slipping.
  25. He was only the second Republican since 1933 to govern West Virginia, where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 2-to-1 margin.
  26. In East Malaysia, particularly in the resource rich state of Sabah, Indonesian and Philippine workers outnumber locals on the big plantations and in the timber industry. Malaysia has a population of 18.5m.
  27. One example in the "Learning Laboratories" program: In Memphis, Tenn., inner-city schools will be controlled by a council on which teachers will outnumber administrators.
  28. He battled his party at home, too, but was elected and re-elected, enjoying strong support from Democrats and unaffiliated voters in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of about 3-to-2.
  29. During the campaign, Labor has used the euphemism "demographic problem" to refer to the fact that Palestinians will eventually outnumber Jews if Israel holds on to the occupied territories.
  30. Adolescent girls, who outnumber their male counterparts on television, are more passive than male characters.
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