excel

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To surpass someone or something; to be better or do better than someone or something. transitive
    — I excelled everyone else with my exam results.
  2. To be much better than others. intransitive
    — But it is as a destroyer of grasshoppers that the dickcissel excels.
  3. To exceed, to go beyond. archaic,rare,transitive
    — She opened; but to shut / Excelled her power: the gates wide open stood […]

词形变化

excels present,singular,third-person excelling participle,present excelled participle,past excelled past

词源

From Middle English excellen, from Old French exceller, from Latin excellere, excelsum; ex (“out”) + *cellō, an unattested verb root found in culmen (“height, top”); Compare French exceller. See also culminate, column.
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