虽然exceed surpass都可翻译为“超过”、“超越”,但意义并不相同,exceed是超过/超越一个“值”或一个“限”,而surpass是超过/超越某人、某事物,就是比……更好。例如:
If the value of the signal exceeds the threshold, it will be determined to be 1. Otherwise 0.(如果信号值超过阈值,它就判定为1,否则为0。)
The population of this city exceeds 1000,000.(这个城市人口超过百万。)
The proposed algorithm surpasses existing ones in computational complexity.(所提出的算法在计算复杂度方面超过/超越已有算法。)
It turns out that deep learning surpasses statistical learning.(已经显示出,深度学习优于统计学习。)
注意一个有用的表达:exceed expectations 和surpass expectations 都是可以的,例如:
Experiments show that the performance of the new system exceeds/surpasses expectations.(实验表明新系统的性能超出了预期。)
这个表达是不是比下面的表达更高级:
Experiments show that the performance of the new system is better than expected.
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