Translation of overtake – English–Traditional Chinese dictionary
overtake verb
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Examples of overtake
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In the early 1740s the realities of hardship and hunger seem to have overtaken the goals of a more parsimonious policy, at least temporarily.
Thematic polarities were gradually overtaken by archival-based studies of groups and individuals.
The form ain't changes have rapidly overtaken was educated colloquial in the 19th understanding.
Other members were conscious of the need to make progress more urgently if the whole enterprise was not to be overtaken by events.
The opening of the work also illustrates an eclipse with initial low sustained tones being eventually overtaken by the louder and faster sounds.
However, discussions were to be overtaken by events with the outbreak of serious disorder in the spring and summer months of 1981 in inner-city areas across the country.
At steady state, no further nucleation can take place until the cooling front overtakes the gas depletion front.
However, they do not assure that overtaking is inevitable.
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