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To be so much better than someone or something that the comparison stops being close. The word is not for a narrow win — it says the two were never really in the same class. You meet it constantly in sport ('Brazil outclassed them in the second half'), and also in business and technology, where one product outclasses another. It is very often used in the passive: 'we were completely outclassed' is how a losing team or a beaten company admits the other side was simply on another level. like 'completely', 'utterly' and 'thoroughly' sit naturally in front of it. Note that outclassing is about quality and ability, not just the score — a team can win by one goal and still be the side that was outclassed, and a team can be outclassed and still, by luck, win. It is a regular verb: outclass, outclassed, outclassed. Slightly formal, and very much the language of reporting and commentary rather than everyday speech.
遠勝於、（實力）高出一個等級；比賽被完全壓制常說 be outclassed。
組成out- + class. The out- is the 'surpass, do better than' prefix. 'Class' here means level or quality — the same 'class' as in 'a world-class player'. So: to be a class above someone.
同家族的字
- outperformsame out- 'surpass someone in doing this'
- outrunsame out- 'surpass someone in doing this'
- world-classsame 'class' = level of quality, not a school class
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
outclassverb/aʊtˈklæs/
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to surpass something or somebody else, so as to appear to be in a higher class
- In the IQ test, he outclassed all the other applicants.
- The 7th and 8th classes are identical with the Cape engines placed in service at the turn of the century, and are now outclassed for main line work but are used for shunting at the large depots and on one or two of the branch lines.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。