- 1跑得比…快；發展／成長速度快過
If you outpace someone, you go faster than they do — or you grow, get better, or change faster than they do. The old picture is walking: your pace (your step) is quicker, so you pull ahead. Though actually, today you meet this word far more in news and business than on a running track. Demand can outpace supply: people want more than shops can sell. A city can outpace its roads. that fail to outpace prices leave families feeling poorer, even when the number on the pay slip went up a little. Papers and reports like it because it feels more alive than “grow faster than.” It is not slang, and it is not a dinner-table word; it is serious grown-up English for people or for things. The out- here means “more than,” not “outdoors.”
組成out- (beyond, more than) + pace (step; speed). From out- + pace. The out- piece is old English, going back through Middle English ut- and Old English ūt- to a much older root that meant “out” or “up.”
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
outpaceverb
- 1
To go faster than; to exceed the pace of.
- The youngster outpaced his grandfather and ran on ahead.
- Walters outpaced Raio Piiroja from a long ball forward and curled a powerful shot over the crossbar from a tight angle in the 33rd minute.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。