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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ex·cel /ɪkˈsel/ verb (excelled, excelling) 1 [intransitive, 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 English 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。→ See Verb tableExamples 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”ex·cel verbChineseSyllable
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excel
ex‧cel /ɪkˈsel/
verb (past tense and past participle excelled, present participle excelling)
excel at/in
Rick has always excelled at foreign languages.
2. excel yourself British English to do something better than you usually do:
You have excelled yourself with the new exhibition.
ex‧cel /ɪkˈsel/
verb (past tense and past participle excelled, present participle excelling) Date: 1400-1500
Language: Latin
Origin: excellere, from -cellere 'to rise, stick up'
1. [intransitive, not in progressive] to do something very well, or much better than most peopleLanguage: Latin
Origin: excellere, from -cellere 'to rise, stick up'
excel at/in
2. excel yourself British English to do something better than you usually do:
Giving examples 举例
◆ The website has a variety of interactive exercises ( e.g. matching games, crosswords and quizzes).这个网站有各种各样的互动练习（比如：配对游戏、纵横填字游戏和智力测试）。 ◆ The website has a variety of interactive exercises, including matching games, crosswords and quizzes.这个网站有各种各样的互动练习，包括配对游戏、纵横填字游戏和智力测试。 ◆ Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs and social networking sites, have changed the way that people use the Internet.* Web 2.0 技术，比如维基、博客及社交网站，改变了人们使用互联网的方式。 ◆ Many websites now allow users to contribute information. A good example of this is the 'wiki', a type of website that anyone can edit.现在许多网站都允许用户撰写信息。维基就是一个很好的例子，它是一种任何人都可以编辑的网站。 ◆ Wikis vary in how open they are. For example , some wikis allow anybody to edit content, while others only allow registered users to do this.各维基网的开放程度不同。比如，有些维基网允许任何人编辑内容，另一些则只允许注册用户进行内容编辑。 ◆ Wikis vary in how open they are. Some wikis, for example /for instance , allow anybody to edit content, while others only allow registered users to do this.各维基网的开放程度不同。比如，有些维基网允许任何人编辑内容，另一些则只允许注册用户进行内容编辑。 ◆ More and more people read their news on the Internet. To take one example, over 14 million people now read the online version of 'The Oxford Herald'.越来越多的人在网上阅读新闻。举个例子来说，现在有超过 1 400 万人阅读《牛津先驱报》的网络版。 ◆ Online newspapers are now more popular than paper ones. 'The Oxford Herald' is a case in point . Its print circulation has fallen in recent years, while its website attracts millions of users every month.现在，网络报纸比纸质报纸更受欢迎。《牛津先驱报》就是一个很好的例子。近年来，其印刷版发行量趋于减少，但其网站每个月却吸引上千万的用户。