outwitted

英 [ˌaʊtˈwɪtɪd]

美 [ˌaʊtˈwɪtɪd]

v.  (智力上)超过，胜过
outwit的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 智胜；用计击败（或超过）
  If yououtwitsomeone, you use your intelligence or a clever trick to defeat them or to gain an advantage over them.
  1. To win the presidency he had first to outwit his rivals within the Socialist Party...
     要想赢得总统之位，他必须首先智胜其在社会党内的竞选对手。
  2. Seeing how cleverly he had been outwitted he made no complaint.
     看到自己在计谋上完全不是对手，他甘拜下风。

双语例句

• Before he became President, war was his profession, and all-nighters were the way he outwitted his enemy.
  在当上总统以前，打仗是他的职业，他正是用通宵熬夜的办法战胜了敌人。
• The store outwitted the robbers by putting phony jewels in the display case. The conversation at the dinner table was getting rather tense, so the host cleverly changed the subject.
  那商场机智地将假珠宝放在陈列箱里而骗过了那些抢劫者。宴席上的谈话显得有点紧张，主人便机智地转移了话题。
• He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's enmity. The thief outwitted the police and got away with his loot.
  他忍着骄阳的炙烤，小步跑过沙滩。小偷以狡计骗过警察带着赃物逃跑了。
• Those who fear that computers are on the path to world domination can take heart: machines still need the law to protect them from being outwitted by humans.
  那些担心计算机正走向世界主宰之路的人可以放心了：机器仍需要法律保护自己不被人类打败。
• He was too clever for ( ie He outwitted) us.
  他太精明了（我们斗不过）。
• The thief outwitted the police and got away with his loot.
  小偷以狡计骗过警察带着赃物逃跑了。
• Two prisoners outwitted their guards and got away.
  有两个囚犯设计欺骗了警卫而逃走了。
• They are simple-minded and easily outwitted, but in large groups can overwhelm the unwary.
  们很单纯，很好骗，但是一大群则能克服这缺点。
• Once again, the police had been outwitted by the gang.
  警察又一次被那伙人骗了。
• Seeing how cleverly he had been outwitted he made no complaint.
  看到自己在计谋上完全不是对手，他甘拜下风。