It was important for me to outdo them, to feel better than they were.

对我来说重要的是超过他们，感觉比他们更好。

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But he needed to outdo himself.

但他需要超越自我。

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And July is doing its best to outdo June.

而且七月正在马不停蹄地超越六月。

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Or what if the British begin to outdo us in the world trade department?

或者,"万一英国在贸易上压倒我们了怎么办"

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Philia Civic friendship civic philia is in other words not without a strong element of what might be thought of as sibling rivalry in which each citizen strives to outdo the others for the sake of the civic good.

公民友情，或说公民,并非不具一般所认为的,手足竞争等强烈元素,即每位公民都努力,要胜过其它人，以谋求城市的利益。

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