No foliage is dense enough to hide, and no autumnal tint too brilliant to outshine this luminous little bird that in May, as it migrates northward to its nesting ground, darts in and out of the leafy shadows like a tongue of fire.英文原著 · 《Bird Neighbors》
But his rival for parliamentary honors, Robert Stapleton, Esq., the great iron-master, who had come to Norway chiefly to outshine Sir Barry, determined that he was to have the skin of that famous bear, if any one was to have it, and that, at all events, Sir Barry should not have it. So Mr. Stapleton added $750 to the bear's bank account, with the stipulation that the skin should come to him.英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
"Lady mine," said the Provencal, fondly, "how sayest thou? must we abandon our mountain castle, and these wild woodland scenes, for the dull walls of a city? I fear me so. - The Lady Adeline," he continued, turning to Adrian, "is of a singular bias; she hates the gay crowds of streets and thoroughfares, and esteems no palace like the solitary outlaw's hold. Yet, methinks, she might outshine all the faces of Italy, - thy mistress, Lord Adrian, of course, excepted."英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
Besant's writings on London. It isn't so easy to outshine all the experts - even for a clever peer who has been Prime Minister, though it is very, very easy to flatter Lord Rosebery, with a purpose or purposes, as did at least once also with rarest tact, at Glasgow, indicating so many other things and possibilities, a certain very courtly ex-Moderator of the Church of Scotland.英文原著 · 《Robert Louis Stevenson》
'You are as quick as you are clever,' said he, admiringly. 'This looks as if it had been embroidered by the fairies! But as the green robe must outshine the other two I will give you three days in which to finish it. After it is ready we will be married at once.'英文原著 · 《The Crimson Fairy Book》
"In the evening the park will be illuminated with many thousand lamps, which will outshine the sun, so that the guests will there wander in a sea of light," said he, in closing his report.英文原著 · 《The Daughter of an Empress》
You Never Outshine The Queen Yeah, Well,She Landed A Major Advertiser, And By The Way,Wilhelmina Totally Smiled At Me.美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》
You think I'm just gonna sit'here and watch you outshine me?美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》