exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence
far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree;
"a night of exceeding darkness" "an exceptional memory" "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy" "the young Mozart's prodigious talents"
例句
用作形容词(adj.)
What is it that makes Guilin a place of such surpassing scenic beauty?桂林山水为何这样美?
The gods left Olympus to honor the occasion with their presence, and Vulcan presented the bride with a necklace of surpassing brilliancy, his own workmanship.奥林波斯山上的众神都来庆贺他们的婚礼。伏尔甘送给了新娘一串他亲手制作的项链,精美绝伦。
Social research nowadays has a practical urgency surpassing even that of cancer research.当今社会研究的现实迫切性甚至超过对癌症的研究。