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  • v.（在数量上）压倒
  • Web比…多；数目超过；在数量上超过
Simple Present：outnumbers  Present Participle：outnumbering  Past Tense：outnumbered  

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1.
~ sb/sth
（在数量上）压倒，比…多to be greater in number than sb/sth
The demonstrators were heavily outnumbered by the police.
示威者人数远不及警察人数。
In this profession, women outnumber men by two to one(= there are twice as many women as men) .
在这个行业，女性人数是男性的两倍。

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It means women are losing full-time jobs at twice the rate of men, because men significantly outnumber women in the workplace.
这意味着失业的全职女性是男性的二倍，因为在工作场所里，男性的人数明显多于女性。
zhè yì wèi zhe shī yè de quán zhí nǚ xìng shì nán xìng de èr bèi , yīn wèi zài gōng zuò chǎng suǒ lǐ , nán xìng de rén shù míng xiǎn duō yú nǚ xìng 。
article.yeeyan.org
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Take the cadres alone. Do not think they are few; they far outnumber the readers of any book published in the Kuomintang areas.
即拿干部说，你们不要以为这部分人数目少，这比在国民党统治区出一本书的读者多得多。
jí ná gàn bù shuō , nǐ men bú yào yǐ wéi zhè bù fen rén shù mù shǎo , zhè bǐ zài guó mín dǎng tǒng zhì qū chū yī běn shū de dú zhě duō de duō 。
wilsonwhite.blog.163.com
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Yet the Middle East is an outlier: in spite of a fall in their number, it is now the only region in which autocracies outnumber democracies.
然而中东是个例外：尽管独裁政体数量有所下降，但它目前仍是世界上唯一独裁政体数量超过民主政体数量的地区。
rán ér zhōng dōng shì gè lì wài : jǐn guǎn dú cái zhèng tǐ shù liàng yǒu suǒ xià jiàng , dàn tā mù qián réng shì shì jiè shàng wéi yī dú cái zhèng tǐ shù liàng chāo guò mín zhǔ zhèng tǐ shù liàng de dì qū 。
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By 2015 its research scientists and engineers may outnumber those of any other country.
到2015年，中国的研究型科学家和工程师的人数可能会超过任何国家。
dào èr líng yī wǔ nián , zhōng guó de yán jiū xíng kē xué jiā hé gōng chéng shī de rén shù kě néng huì chāo guò rèn hé guó jiā 。
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IN A country where livestock outnumber people by an order of 16 to one, animal welfare is no small matter.
在一个人畜比为1：16的国度，牲畜的生活条件如何绝不是件小事。
zài yī gè rén chù bǐ wèi yì diǎn shí liù fēn de guó dù , shēng chù de shēng huó tiáo jiàn rú hé jué bú shì jiàn xiǎo shì 。
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She has gone online as a man, just to survey the terrain, and estimates that in her age range women outnumber men ten to one.
她在网上假装男人，只是去了解下情况，她估计在她年龄范围内的女性人数是男性的十倍。
tā zài wǎng shàng jiǎ zhuāng nán rén , zhǐ shì qù liǎo jiě xià qíng kuàng , tā gū jì zài tā nián líng fàn wéi nèi de nǚ xìng rén shù shì nán xìng de shí bèi 。
article.yeeyan.org
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For spending $25 million of his own money and still contriving to lose a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans almost 2: 1.
获奖原因：科赛因自掏腰包2,500万美元，却仍有本事在一个民主党比共和党多出近一倍的州中竞选失利。
huò jiǎng yuán yīn : kē sài yīn zì tāo yāo bāo èr , wǔ bǎi wàn měi yuán , què réng yǒu běn shi zài yī gè mín zhǔ dǎng bǐ gòng hé dǎng duō chū jìn yí bèi de zhōu zhōng jìng xuǎn shī lì 。
chinese.wsj.com
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On top of that, voluntary outfits outnumber governments on the partnership's committee.
此外，参加该伙伴关系委员会的志愿机构比政府要多。
cǐ wài , cān jiā gāi huǒ bàn guān xì wěi yuán huì de zhì yuàn jī gòu bǐ zhèng fǔ yào duō 。
bbs.ecocn.org
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Giving thanks is also difficult because many of us find ourselves in situations in which the bad things seem to outnumber the good.
感恩之难还在于我们当中许多人都觉得落在我们头上的坏事多于好事。
gǎn ēn zhī nán hái zài yú wǒ men dāng zhōng xǔ duō rén dōu jué de luò zài wǒ men tóu shàng de huài shì duō yú hǎo shì 。
blog.sina.com.cn
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Since Brazil clearly dominates the continent demographically, Brazil could outnumber US residents by the end of the century.
自从巴西人口上支配南美大陆，在本世纪末会超过美国居民。
zì cóng bā xī rén kǒu shàng zhī pèi nán měi dà lù , zài běn shì jì mò huì chāo guò měi guó jū mín 。
article.yeeyan.org
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