outnumbered是什么意思？

outnumbered

• v. 数量多于，比…多( outnumber的过去式和过去分词 )；

例句

• Reporters outnumbered guests at the political gathering. 在那次政治性集会上, 记者的数量超过了来宾。
• We students outnumbered our teachers. 我们学生的人数比老师多。
• The French, suddenly outnumbered, were forced to retreat. 人数突然处于劣势的法军被迫撤退。
• The defenders were outnumbered and had to give in. 抵抗者寡不敌众,只能投降.
• The French, suddenly outnumbered, were forced to retreat... 人数突然处于劣势的法军被迫撤退。

英语六级真题

For the first time in history, urban people outnumbered rural people.
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• VERB
  （在数量上）压倒，比…多
  If one group of people or things outnumbers another, the first group has more people or things in it than the second group.
  例句
  ...a town where men outnumber women four to one... 男性比女性多3倍的城镇 Donkeys outnumber cars in this landscape of tiny stonewalled fields. 在这片以石墙隔出巴掌大的农田的乡村，驴子比汽车还多。