Outdone

(p. p.) of Outdo

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• You will hardly bear to be long outdone by Jane. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Jim's, not to be outdone, would affix bows and rosettes everywhere. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Not wishing to be outdone in courtesy, he immediately sent me the countersign for his regiment for the night. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The little citizen, not to be outdone, declared her to be a celestial witness. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The la tter laid much stress, as we have seen in the preceding chapter, on the med icinal properties of plants, but in this respect he was outdone by Dioscorides (as well as by Pliny). 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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