喜樂美語

From the word’s history

From Middle English exceden, from Old French exceder, from Latin excēdō 'to go beyond', from ex- 'out' + cēdō 'to go'.

源自拉丁文 excēdō「超出」，由 ex-「向外」加 cēdō「走」組成。

Wiktionary

Picture a line drawn to mark how far something may go — a speed, a budget, a weight — and something going past it. Exceed always needs that line to exist first; the word is about the crossing, not about being big. When the line marks how much power someone has been given rather than how much of something is allowed, crossing it is the same act.

可以想成：有一條線標著「最多到這裡」——速限、預算、重量——而某樣東西越過了那條線。exceed 一定要先有那條線才成立；它講的是「越過去」，不是「很大」。而當那條線標的不是數量，而是某人被授予的權力範圍時，越過去也是同一個動作。

同家族的字

exceeded exceeded exceeding exceeds

意思相近

surpassgo overoutdobe more thanoverstepgo beyond

意思相反

fall short ofstay underbe less thanstay withinrespect

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exceedverb/ɪkˈsiːd/

  • 1

    To be larger, greater than (something).

    • The company's 2005 revenue exceeds that of 2004.
  • 2

    To be better than (something).

    • The quality of her essay has exceeded my expectations.
    • Descriptions of nature that far exceed anything else we've heard.
  • 3

    To go beyond (some limit); to surpass; to be longer than.

    • Your password cannot exceed eight characters.
    • Name the time, but let it not / Exceed three days.
  • 4

    To predominate.

  • 5

    obsoleteTo go too far; to be excessive.

    • And to speak impartially, old Men, from whom we should expect the greatest example of Wisdom, do most exceed in this point of folly […].

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