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  1. After overtaking you should move back into the inside lane.
    超车後应回到内车道行驶.
  2. I didn't see the car that was overtaking me it was in my blind spot.
    我没有看见超越我的那辆汽车--当时正位於我的盲点上.


overtaking
[ noun ]
going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it
<noun.act>
she drove but well but her reckless passing of every car on the road frightened me


Overtake \O`ver*take"\, v. t. [imp. {Overtook}; p. p.
{Overtaken}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Overtaking}.]
1. To come up with in a race, pursuit, progress, or motion;
also, to catch up with and move ahead of.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

Follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake
them, say . . . Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for
good. --Gen. xliv.
4.

He had him overtaken in his flight. --Spenser.

2. Hence: To surpass in production, achievement, etc.; as,
although out of school for half a year due to illness, the
student returned and overtook all the others to finish as
valedictorian.
[PJC]

3. To come upon from behind; to discover; to surprise; to
capture; to overcome.

If a man be overtaken in a fault. --Gal. vi. 1

I shall see
The winged vengeance overtake such children. --Shak.

4. Hence, figuratively, in the past participle (overtaken),
drunken. [Obs.] --Holland.

5. To frustrate or render impossible or irrelevant; -- used
mostly of plans, and commonly in the phrase overtaken by
events; as, their careful marketing plan was overtaken by
events.
[PJC]

  1. In practice, this spells safe, swift overtaking on wet or dry roads. It also spells temptation.
  2. Global sales of waterjet looms rose by 135 per cent between 1988 and 1992, overtaking both airjet and conventional shuttle looms, according to the International Textile Manufacturers Federation.
  3. They bemoan that the U.S., the richest country in the world, has allegedly become the biggest debtor in the world, overtaking such notorious debtors as Brazil and Mexico.
  4. These showed girls marginally overtaking boys at A-level this year for the first time.
  5. The transmission kicks down smoothly and eagerly for quick, safe overtaking.
  6. For example, a flower removes the notion that sport is predominantly a male domain, and it is 'relevant to the green issues'. Not long ago the zebra looked like overtaking the springbok.
  7. The crossing of the frontier between muscle and neuron may have as many consequences as the rise of industry.' Cotta is putting his finger on the information and technological revolution that is overtaking the industrialised world.
  8. Others believe the acquisition was overpriced and will offer no lasting competitive advantage in pharmaceuticals marketing. The Medco acquisition is Merck's response to the rapid changes overtaking US pharmaceuticals.
  9. New Zealand was a surprise winner in a third ballot, overtaking Sweden.
  10. The irony of Mazowiecki, a longtime Solidarity activist and former political prisoner, receiving at his government office the head of the Soviet intelligence agency is another example of the remarkable changes overtaking Poland and the Communist world.
  11. The excuse is that you cannot see when overtaking.
  12. The sight of the needle moving from, say, 30 mpg (9.4 l/100 km) to 10 mpg (28.2 l/100 km) during fierce acceleration when overtaking is salutary.
  13. The 39-year-old former governor of one of Brazil's poorest states has surged to the forefront of the nation's presidential race, overtaking a veteran populist and a radical leftist.
  14. The horrors of airline travel are overtaking crime and real estate on the small-talk agenda.
  15. Mrs. Robinson finished with 52.8 percent of the vote, overtaking former deputy prime minister Brian Lenihan, the nominee of the dominant Fianna Fail party, in the second round of counting.
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