Excel

(verb.) distinguish oneself; 'She excelled in math'.

录入:撒迦利亚

• We are not apt to imagine our posterity will excel us, or equal our ancestors. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• To excel in any profession, in which but few arrive at mediocrity, it is the most decisive mark of what is called genius, or superior talents. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The learning of this people is very defective, consisting only in morality, history, poetry, and mathematics, wherein they must be allowed to excel. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Montaigne is not more free and flowing, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is scarcely more graphic; neither does Bossuet excel him in poetical power. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The _lighthouses_ of the century, in masonry, do not greatly excel in general principles those of preceding ones, as at Eddystone, designed by Smeaton. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Strength is a kind of power; and therefore the desire to excel in strength is to be considered as an inferior species of ambition. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Physically, she far excelled me: she was handsome; she was vigorous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The two pointed pieces of hard conducting carbon used for the separated terminals constitute the voltaic arc light--a light only excelled in intense brilliancy by the sun itself. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Those republics encouraged the acquisition of those exercises, by bestowing little premiums and badges of distinction upon those who excelled in them. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• They excelled in horticulture, knowing how to graft and how to produce new varieties of fruit and flowers. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Caligula valued himself for being a notable dancer; and to deny that he excelled in that manly accomplishment was high treason. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• Even these great instruments have now been excelled in the Grande Lunette, of the Paris Exposition, in 1900. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• At a later period in Germany, where the wood pulp art began, even this expeditious work has been excelled. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Another excels in making the frames and covers of their little huts or moveable houses. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• For light parcel system there is said to be no form of delivery that excels the motorcycle in speed and efficiency and nothing with operation costs so low. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• For picturesque detail it would not be easy to find any story excelling that of the Edison family before it reached the Western Reserve. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.

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