outwit

英 [ˌaʊtˈwɪt]

美 [ˌaʊtˈwɪt]

v.  (智力上)超过，胜过

过去分词：outwitted　现在分词：outwitting　过去式：outwitted　第三人称单数：outwits　复数：outwits　

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BNC.18706 / COCA.20442

牛津词典

verb

• （智力上）超过，胜过
  to defeat sb/sth or gain an advantage over them by doing sth clever
  1. Somehow he always manages to outwit his opponents.
     他反正总能设法智胜对手。

柯林斯词典

• VERB 智胜；用计击败（或超过）
  If yououtwitsomeone, you use your intelligence or a clever trick to defeat them or to gain an advantage over them.
  1. To win the presidency he had first to outwit his rivals within the Socialist Party...
     要想赢得总统之位，他必须首先智胜其在社会党内的竞选对手。
  2. Seeing how cleverly he had been outwitted he made no complaint.
     看到自己在计谋上完全不是对手，他甘拜下风。

英英释义

verb

• beat through cleverness and wit
  1. I beat the traffic
  2. She outfoxed her competitors
  Synonym:overreachoutsmartoutfoxbeatcircumvent

双语例句

• Somehow he always manages to outwit his opponents.
  他反正总能设法智胜对手。
• Seeing how cleverly he had been outwitted he made no complaint.
  看到自己在计谋上完全不是对手，他甘拜下风。
• Don't think you can outwit me, croft.
  别以为你能骗过我，克劳夫。
• Always before he had been able to outwit his pursuers.
  他总是能够瞒骗过他的追赶者。
• The risk is that, in trying to be too clever, investors merely outwit themselves.
  风险在于，聪明反被聪明误，到头来投资者不过只是算计了自己。
• Thanks to the intelligence he obtained, Alexander was able to outwit Napoleon, anticipating his invasion.
  亚历山大在他的情报部门的帮助下，得以击败拿破仑，并侵略它国。
• Economists frequently explain eccentric behaviour with a model of two rational agents in one body, battling to outwit each other.
  经济学家经常用一种模型来解释古怪的行为，即一个主体内有两个理性行动者，它们争着显示自己比对方高明。
• How can you outwit the devil in your game?
  你怎么能在游戏中蒙骗死神？
• Schelling, a brilliant game theorist and long-time smoker, used a variety of game theoretic tricks to outwit a formidable opponent his addicted self.
  谢林是一位优秀的博弈理论学家和老烟鬼，曾利用各种博弈论招数来试图制服那个强大的对手烟瘾极大的自己。
• Our analysis revealed potential mechanisms of virulence, which we hope will help us develop novel antiviral strategies to both outwit the virus and moderate the host immune response.
  我们分析发现了病毒毒力的来源，有助于发展对付病毒以及降低宿主免疫反应的新型抗病毒药物。