overtake是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 超过, 赶上; 突然降临，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Un-encumbered with luggage, they would soon overtake the coach, and, passing it and preceding it on the road, would order its horses in advance, and greatly facilitate its prog-ress during the precious hours of the night, when delay was the most to be dreaded.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But do not stop me now I may overtake him I may find my child!'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After crossing the stream Vronsky had complete control of his mare, and began holding her in, intending to cross the great barrier behind Mahotin, and to try to overtake him in the clear ground of about five hundred yards that followed it.
-- At the very moment when Vronsky thought that now was the time to overtake Mahotin, Frou-Frou herself, understanding his thoughts, without any incitement on his part, gained ground considerably, and began getting alongside of Mahotin on the most favorable side, close to the inner cord.
-- Bent double, and his galoshes catching in the steps, Kapitonitch ran after her, trying to overtake her.
-- The horse was not yet ready, but feeling a peculiar concentration of his physical forces and his intellect on what he had to do, he started off on foot without waiting for the horse, and told Kouzma to overtake him.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He thought of pursuing Fogg across the vast white plains; it did not seem impossible that he might overtake him.
-- "At least," said Aouda, "want should not overtake a man like you.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Razumihin thought a minute and ran to overtake him.
-- And he ran back to overtake Raskolnikov, but there was no trace of him.
-- Raskolnikov wondered, but he tried to overtake him.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We shall soon overtake her.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Straight on, as sure as God made little apples," said Jan."Very well; we are better mounted, and must overtake 'em", said Oak.
-- "We shall overtake him in time."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds, or confine a moun-tain-stream with a straw.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I think,' answered the bean, 'that as we have so fortu-nately escaped death, we should keep together like good companions, and lest a new mischance should overtake us 31here, we should go away together, and repair to a foreign country.'
-- Then the cook sent three servants after them, who were to run and overtake the children.
-- In a moment he disappeared, and when his wife came in and looked for him, she found only a white dove; and it said to her, 'Seven years must I fly up and down over the face of the earth, but every now and then I will let fall a white feather, that will show you the way I am going; follow it, and at last you may overtake and set me free.'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was going to holla after them, although it had been to little pur-pose, when I observed a huge creature walking after them in the sea, as fast as he could: he waded not much deeper than his knees, and took prodigious strides: but our men had the start of him half a league, and, the sea thereabouts being full of sharp-pointed rocks, the monster was not able to overtake the boat.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If, in the bygone days when this was your home and when this was your dress, I had understood myself (I speak only of myself) better, and had read the secrets of my own breast more distinctly; if, through my reserve and self-mistrust, I had discerned a light that I see brightly now when it has passed far away, and my weak footsteps can never overtake it; if I had then known, and told you that I loved and honoured you, not as the poor child I used to call you, but as a woman whose true hand would raise me high above myself and make me a far happier and better man; if I had so used the opportunity there is no recalling as I wish I had, O I wish I had! and if something had kept us apart then, when I was moderately thriving, and when you were poor; I might have met your noble offer of your fortune, dearest girl, with other words than these, and still have blushed to touch it.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This midnight-spout had almost grown a forgotten thing, when, some days after, lo!at the same silent hour, it was again announced: again it was descried by all; but upon making sail to overtake it, once more it disappeared as if it had never been.
-- To some the general interest in the White Whale was now wildly heightened by a circumstance of the Town-Ho's story, which seemed obscurely to involve with the whale a certain wondrous, inverted visitation of one of those so called judgments of God which at times are said to overtake some men.
-- The only thing they feared, was, that from being already so nigh to his mark, he would be enabled to dart his iron before they could completely overtake and pass him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let this be a lesson to you, my man, or the law will overtake you yet.
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