由于全球需求增加，政府继续支持中小企业，推动出口增长，一季度韩国的经济增长超预期。请看本报昨日的报道：

South Korea’s economic growth beat expectations in the first quarter, extending the country’s export-led recovery as global demand surged and the government maintained support for ailing small businesses.

Gross domestic product (GDP) grew a seasonally adjusted 1.6 percent in the March quarter from three months earlier, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said yesterday, faster than the median estimate of a 1 percent growth in a recent poll and following a 1.2 percent expansion in the December quarter.

报道中的beat expectations就是“超预期”，beat是“打败，比…好”，expectations就是“预期”。例如：

The company’s stock price soared after it reported Q1 earnings that drastically beat expectations.

公布了大幅超预期的一季报后，这家公司的股价大涨。