每日一词学英语(100): outstrip

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每日一词学英语(100): outstrip

“供不应求”用英文怎么说？Google一下，有几种答案，感觉没有我今天无意碰到的好。

At present they produce 40 barrels a week — the equivalent of 11,520 pints — and have the capacity to produce 20 more. Previous winners such as the Coniston Brewing Company in Cumbria had to get a larger brewery to help to make their Bluebird Bitter, because demand outstripped supply. (From The Times, August 5, 2009: Champion Beer of Britain Ruby Mild will go down a treat with the ladies)

查一下词典，也找到类似例句：
1. to become larger, more important, etc. than sb/sth
*Demand is outstripping supply.
2. to be faster, better or more successful than sb you are competing against。同义词：surpass
*Their latest computer outstrips all its rivals.
3. to run faster than sb in a race so that you pass them
*She soon outstripped the slower runners.

“overtake”和“outstrip”为同义词时，意思是：to become greater in number, amount or importance than sth else
*Nuclear energy may overtake oil as the main fuel.
*We mustn’t let ourselves be overtaken by our competitors.
*Quinine has been overtaken by newer drugs.