1.追上;赶上;超过;赶补(欠工),赶做(限期快到的工程)
2.打垮,压倒
3.(暴风雨,灾难等)突然袭击
1.to become better than another person; to go past a particular limit; to pass another vehicle
2.to take control of someone or something
1.For all that it has recently been overtaken by China in global rankings, Japan remains an economic powerhouse.
尽管在全球排名中，中国最近已超过了日本，但日本仍然是一个经济强国。
2.Overtaken by a huge iceberg, the luxurious ship, Titanic, sank to the bottom of the sea once and for all on its maiden voyage.
突然遭到冰山的撞击，泰坦尼克号游轮在第一次航行中就永远地沉入了海底。
3.Last week one of the headline news was that China has officially overtaken Japan as the world's second largest economy.
上周，根据中日两国的最新GDP统计数字，中国正式超过日本成为了世界第二大经济体。
4.A few years later, however, he admitted that some of his basic assumptions had been overtaken by developments.
认，他的某些基本假设已经由于事态的发展而过时。
5.I began to unpack but was overtaken by my habitual urge to have a shower at the end of a day's cycling. Was there anywhere to stay?
我开始打开行李，但是骑了一天车以后，我已经习惯要冲个凉，还有别的地方可以住吗？
6.It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in his flight and was leading him back.
好象有人在他潜逃的时候追上了他，硬把他拖回来一样。
7.Mr Epstein's conviction that films are a terrible business for all but Hollywood's sharks also seems to have been overtaken by events.
Epstein坚信对于所有人来说电影行业是个糟糕的行业，好莱坞的大鳄们在一些事情上也被超越。
8.It was only a few weeks earlier that the news came out that China had overtaken Japan as the second largest economy in the world.
几个星期前的新闻报道说，中国已经超越日本成为仅次于美国的世界第二大经济体。
9.India will also have overtaken the US, and the UK will be lucky to be hanging on to its place in the economic top 10.
印度也会超越美国，英国则很幸运地能保留自己在经济实力排名榜前10的位置。
10.But by the eve of the first world war Britain's income per head had been overtaken by that of America, the 20th century's great power.
但是在第一次世界大战的前夕，英国的人均收入被美国超过，这个20世纪的超级大国。