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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would have been useless for the travelers to attempt to overtake them with such wornout horses.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet he took this document very seriously, and his mind was prepared for just such an end as did eventually overtake him.'
-- Then, as it would seem, he became as one that hath a devil, for, rushing down the stairs into the dining-hall, he sprang upon the great table, flagons and trenchers flying before him, and he cried aloud before all the compa-ny that he would that very night render his body and soul to the Powers of Evil if he might but overtake the wench.
-- As our road lay the same way I thought that I would overtake you and introduce myself.
-- It might not even now be too late to overtake him, so I set off at once in the direction of Merripit House.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Henceforth, however, I must be your host in middle Argos, and you mine in Lycia, if I should ever go there; let us avoid one another's spears even during a general engagement; there are many noble Trojans and al-lies whom I can kill, if I overtake them and heaven delivers them into my hand; so again with yourself, there are many Achaeans whose lives you may take if you can; we two, then, will exchange armour, that all present may know of the old ties that subsist between us.'
-- I shall be sure to overtake you.'
-- I am in haste to help the Trojans, who miss me greatly when I am not among them; but urge your husband, and of his own self also let him make haste to overtake me before I am out of the city.
-- Now, however, I will pursue and overtake other Trojans.'
-- I do not bid you try to beat the steeds of the son of Tydeus, for Minerva has put run-ning into them, and has covered Diomed with glory; but you must overtake the horses of the son of Atreus and not be left behind, or Aethe who is so fleet will taunt you.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even the tiger runs and hides when little Tabaqui goes mad, for madness is the most disgraceful thing that can overtake a wild creature.
-- The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee, Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas!
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Almost immediately, hundreds of little animals, similar to rabbits, fled in every direction, with such rapidity that even Top could not overtake them.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hull of the Nautilus, resembling a long shoal, disappeared by degrees; but its lantern, when darkness should overtake us in the waters, would help to guide us on board by its distinct rays.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he gathered himself together for a leap, to overtake her.
-- Gerald and Birkin had walked on ahead, waiting for the sledge to overtake them, conveying the departing guests.
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