outgun

verb

1. （军事上）胜过，超过
   to have greater military strength than sb
   1. The England team was completely outgunned.
      英格兰队毫无还手之力。

1. VERB （在火力上）超过，压过
   In a battle, if one army is outgunned, they are in a very weak position because the opposing army has more or better weapons.
   1. First Airborne Division was heavily outgunned by German forces...
      第一空降师完全被德军的凶猛火力压住了。
   2. They met little resistance from outgunned government troops.
      已无还手之力的政府军面对他们几乎是束手就擒。
2. VERB （在竞赛中）超过，胜过
   If you are outgunned in a contest, you are beaten because your rival is stronger or better than you.
   1. Clearly, the BBC is being outgunned by ITV's original drama...
      很显然，英国独立电视台原创剧集的收视胜过了英国广播公司的节目。
   2. He soon hit top speed to outgun all his rivals in the opening qualifying session.
      他在首场资格赛中很快便跑出最快速度，击败了所有对手。

1. First Airborne Division was heavily outgunned by German forces
   第一空降师完全被德军的凶猛火力压住了。
2. They met little resistance from outgunned government troops.
   已无还手之力的政府军面对他们几乎是束手就擒。
3. Clearly, the BBC is being outgunned by ITV's original drama
   很显然，英国独立电视台原创剧集的收视胜过了英国广播公司的节目。
4. He soon hit top speed to outgun all his rivals in the opening qualifying session.
   他在首场资格赛中很快便跑出最快速度，击败了所有对手。
5. Ogier, the2008 Junior world champion, made his Rally Sweden debut last season and could find it hard to outgun Loeb and Citroen privateer Petter Solberg.
   2008年世界汽车拉力锦标赛青年组冠军奥吉尔，在上个赛季首次参加瑞典拉力赛就发现自己很难跟上勒布，以及雪铁龙私人车手皮特·索伯格。
6. NATO aircraft are continuing their patrols but are less needed, since the rebels now far outgun Colonel Qaddafi's forces.
   北约的飞机现在正在巡逻但是并不是那么需要了，因为反叛军的火力现在已远胜上校卡扎菲的军队。
7. Theory predicts that you'd have to go out hundreds of millions of light-years, where matter is spread randomly rather than finely structured, before the overall expansion should outgun localized motions.
   理论预测，在整体膨胀的效应大于区域空间的局部运动之前，我们便已经到达数十亿光年以外的地方，在那里，物质并未形成紧密的结构，而是随意四散。