They are the acme of Nature's architecture, and in building them she has outrivalled all her erstwhile conceptions.

它们是大自然建筑的巅峰之作， 在建造它们的过程中， 她超越了她从前的所有构想。

The campaign which ensued outrivaled in the range of its educational activities and the bitterness of its tone all other political conflicts in American history, not excepting the fateful struggle of 1860.

——随后发生的这场运动在其教育活动的范围和其语气的尖锐方面超越了美国历史上所有其他政治冲突，1860 年的决定性斗争也不例外。

I learned the first two tenses of the verb Etre, and sketched my first cottage (whose walls, by-the-bye, outrivalled in slope those of the leaning tower of Pisa), on the same day.

我学会了动词 Etre 的前两个时态，并在同一天画了我的第一间小屋（顺便说一下，它的墙壁在坡度上胜过比萨斜塔）。