outgrow

/.aut'grәu/

★☆☆☆☆托福英语词汇

📖 中文释义

  1. vt. 过大而不适于, 长得比...高(或大、快), 成长得不再具有...

🧩 词形变化

过去分词 outgrown现在分词 outgrowing第三人称单数 outgrows过去式 outgrew

💬 双语例句

  1. Hosting a huge financial center, with outsize domestic banks, can be costly to taxpayers. In Iceland and Ireland, banks outgrew their governments’ ability to support them when needed.

  2. NEW DELHI – A number of seemingly unrelated controversies in India actually have one important element in common: They all relate to criminal offenses codified by India’s British imperial rulers in the mid-nineteenth century that India has proved unable or unwilling to outgrow.

  3. At the same time, people are living longer, so that in a generation the number of elderly dependents in some countries will outgrow that of the young. We have been accustomed to societies with a demographic structure that resembles a pyramid – a broad youth base tapering to an elderly tip.

    与此同时,人们的寿命更长了。 因此,在一代人的时间里,某些国家需要供养的老年人数量将会超过年轻人。 我们已经习惯了金字塔型的社会人口结构,也就是广大的年轻人基础逐渐变小成为顶尖上的老年人。 但是现在这一结构更像是一座摩天大楼,从上到下基本一样大小。

🔵 同义词

🔗 常用搭配

unwilling to outgrow
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. v. grow too large or too mature for
  2. v. grow faster than