excel

Word family noun excellence Excellency Excellencyadjective excellent verb excel adverb excellently interjectionexcelsior

ex·cel /ɪkˈsel/ verb (excelled, excelling)

1 [intransitiveI, not in progressive]DO WELL to do something very well, or much better than most people 优于，擅长；胜过他人

excel at/in

Rick has always excelled at foreign languages.

里克一向擅长外语。

2 excel yourself British EnglishBrE to do something better than you usually do 胜过平时

You have excelled yourself with the new exhibition.

你新办的这次展览特别成功。

Examples from the Corpus

excel yourself• It gives us the confidence to cope with other apparently insurmountable problems, knowing that we have excelled ourselves before. 3.• Miss Lodsworth, who organized the flower rota, had excelled herself.• Last week, Helen excelled herself - a black matt waterproof, lined, with a turn-back collar of fake ocelot!• In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers, Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward.• He was a chaser of the highest class, and had not other horses of unproven stamina excelled themselves in the National?• But he excelled himself last week.• Yuletide in Walford is traditionally a combat zone with crackers, but the soap excelled itself this year.• Sorrel excelled herself with the meal, although her father never mentioned it.

Examples from the Corpus

excel• Alyse was a skilled rider and tried to help me with my technique, but I never excelled.• He frequently rode and hunted, and enjoyed swimming, at which he excelled.• I didn't exactly excel academically and I left school as soon as I had the chance.• Schools that excel and attract more students rarely grow or clone themselves.• The kind of tasks it might excel at are assembling keyboards and putting gearboxes or electric motors together.• He played cricket for Middlesex but it was football that he really excelled at.• Costner has excelled himself in this movie - definitely his best performance yet.• Parallel distributed computing excels in perception, visualization, and simulation.• Many parents put too much pressure on their children to excel in school.• You want your children to excel in sports?

excel at/in• Internal: What must we excel at.• Rick has always excelled at foreign languages.• What director Michael Winterbottom excels at, instead, is creating an atmosphere of vague religious resonance.• The Arabs did not just excel at managing debt.• Some of the latter may excel at specialised subjects such as engineering or finance.• What makes them excel in the communications business?• The Coelenterates, of which corals are a good example, excel in the variety of their means of replication.• Scotch and Bubba excelled in their fall semester.

Origin excel

(1400-1500) Latin excellere, from -cellere “to rise, stick up”

词汇	excel
释义	excel Word family noun excellence Excellency Excellencyadjective excellent verb excel adverb excellently interjectionexcelsior ex·cel /ɪkˈsel/ verb (excelled, excelling) 1 [intransitiveI, not in progressive]DO WELL to do something very well, or much better than most people 优于，擅长；胜过他人 excel at/in Rick has always excelled at foreign languages. 里克一向擅长外语。 2 excel yourself British EnglishBrE to do something better than you usually do 胜过平时 You have excelled yourself with the new exhibition. 你新办的这次展览特别成功。 Examples from the Corpus excel yourself• It gives us the confidence to cope with other apparently insurmountable problems, knowing that we have excelled ourselves before. 3.• Miss Lodsworth, who organized the flower rota, had excelled herself.• Last week, Helen excelled herself - a black matt waterproof, lined, with a turn-back collar of fake ocelot!• In a playing career that ended the month Graeme Souness arrived at Rangers, Johnstone had excelled himself as a rumbustious centre-forward.• He was a chaser of the highest class, and had not other horses of unproven stamina excelled themselves in the National?• But he excelled himself last week.• Yuletide in Walford is traditionally a combat zone with crackers, but the soap excelled itself this year.• Sorrel excelled herself with the meal, although her father never mentioned it. Examples from the Corpus excel• Alyse was a skilled rider and tried to help me with my technique, but I never excelled.• He frequently rode and hunted, and enjoyed swimming, at which he excelled.• I didn't exactly excel academically and I left school as soon as I had the chance.• Schools that excel and attract more students rarely grow or clone themselves.• The kind of tasks it might excel at are assembling keyboards and putting gearboxes or electric motors together.• He played cricket for Middlesex but it was football that he really excelled at.• Costner has excelled himself in this movie - definitely his best performance yet.• Parallel distributed computing excels in perception, visualization, and simulation.• Many parents put too much pressure on their children to excel in school.• You want your children to excel in sports? excel at/in• Internal: What must we excel at.• Rick has always excelled at foreign languages.• What director Michael Winterbottom excels at, instead, is creating an atmosphere of vague religious resonance.• The Arabs did not just excel at managing debt.• Some of the latter may excel at specialised subjects such as engineering or finance.• What makes them excel in the communications business?• The Coelenterates, of which corals are a good example, excel in the variety of their means of replication.• Scotch and Bubba excelled in their fall semester. Origin excel (1400-1500) Latin excellere, from -cellere “to rise, stick up”
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