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If you outsmart someone, you win by using your head — a trick, a clever plan, a better reading of the situation — not by being stronger or richer. Children outsmart their parents about bedtime; a company outsmarts a rival; a fox in a story outsmarts a farmer. It is an informal, slightly playful word. Smart here means clever, not well dressed and not like a slap. Close in meaning to , but outsmart is the one you will hear more in speech.
智取、用頭腦贏過
組成out- (more than) + smart (clever). From out- + smart.
同家族的字
- smarthere smart means clever, not well-dressed or stinging
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。
outsmartverb/aʊtˈsmɑː(ɹ)t/
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To beat in a competition of wits.
- Maldonado, who is in only his second season in Formula 1, won the Spanish Grand Prix after his team outsmarted Ferrari with pit-stop timing.
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。