| 单词 | contest |
| 释义 | contest Word forms: contests, contesting , contested pronunciation note: The noun is pronounced (kɒntest ). The verb is pronounced (kəntest ). 1. countable noun B1 A contest is a competition or game in which people try to win. Few contests in the recent history of British boxing have been as thrilling. ...a writing contest. Synonyms: competition, game, match, trial 2. See also beauty contest 3. countable noun B2 A contest is a struggle to win power or control. The state election due in November will be the last such ballot before next year's presidential contest. ...a clear contest between church and state. [+ between] 4. verb If someone contests an election or competition, they take part in it and try to win it. [mainly British] He quickly won his party's nomination to contest the elections. [VERB noun] ...a closely contested regional flower show. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: compete in, take part in, fight in, go in for 5. verb If you contest a statement or decision, you object to it formally because you think it is wrong or unreasonable. Your former employer has to reply within 14 days in order to contest the case. [VERB noun] Gender discrimination is a hotly-contested issue. [VERB-ed] Synonyms: oppose, question, challenge, argue Collocations: close contest In a close contest, the delegates can be almost evenly awarded between the top two candidates - and the third-place finisher can do surprisingly well. Times, Sunday Times So the scene was set for a close contest between two sides desperate to climb further up the table. Times, Sunday Times In that case the bowlers should have been prepared for the innings that decided an otherwise close contest against the home side. Times, Sunday Times They were 29-3 ahead after 50 minutes and any thought of a close contest was over. Times, Sunday Times It was a close contest, to be sure. Times, Sunday Times A parish council was forced to pay out for the mishap at a sports centre fearing it would cost more to contest the claim. The Sun The amount in question usually makes it uneconomical for the insurer to contest the claim. Times, Sunday Times The company said that it intended to contest the claim, adding it was 'satisfied that it has taken adequate steps to cover the cost of the litigation going forward'. Times, Sunday Times The defendant need not file an answer at all, but can simply show up in court on the designated return date and contest the claim. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 I was contesting the claim that manufacturing was somehow more wholesome and more economically valuable. Times, Sunday Times He empha-sised that he reserved the right to contest the decision. Times, Sunday Times Running towards an official to contest a decision. The Sun Twitter said that it had hired lawyers to contest the decision. Times, Sunday Times The centrist president said that the accusations were without justification but pledged not to contest the decision. Times,Sunday Times Both vow to contest the decision. Times, Sunday Times Despite the concerns about infiltrators, all four candidates ruled out mounting a legal challenge to contest the result. Times, Sunday Times Should we contest the result? Times, Sunday Times He vowed to contest the result with the party's nomination board. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Royal has announced her intentions to contest the result. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But no one was contesting the result. The Sun The sprinter has filed court papers to contest the ruling. The Sun Pinewood will contest the ruling. Times, Sunday Times Following the hearing, a number of protesters said they would not contest the ruling and would continue their protest in other public areas. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He contested the ruling of 'careless riding'. The Sun By convention the main parties do not contest the seat. Times, Sunday Times It was, however, too early to make a firm prediction about whether he would contest the seat at the next general election, he said. Times, Sunday Times Last month, he announced he would not contest his seat at the general election. Times, Sunday Times In that year, the established parties did not even contest the seat. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He did no contest the seat in 1807, but was re-elected at the 1812 general election. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If three people contest an election, the winner can have as little as 34 per cent of the vote. The Sun The political landscape has become fragmented - ten parties will contest the election. Times, Sunday Times Both begums are now expected to contest the election. Times, Sunday Times All this and a third challenger could yet emerge to contest the election. Times, Sunday Times He said he would make a decision on whether to contest the election early in the new year. Times, Sunday Times From answering big money questions to changing a contest entry, luck follows where you lead. The Sun You have time to rewrite a love message or contest entry to put more of the real you in there. The Sun Of that number, 11,000 have filled out the contest entry form. Globe and Mail The players enter works of literature or art as a contest entry, to be judged by previous winners. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Correct answers earned players one additional contest entry each. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She was listed here as a poetry contest judge. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Seven other finalists are selected by contest judges. The Sun She had decided not to reveal her secret to the beauty contest judges to see how far she would get. The Sun They manage to crudely fix it and the contest judges are impressed with it. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Decisions of the contest judges are final - no substitutions will be available. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Court hearings have been put on hold while prosecutors and the defence contest rules on questioning. Times, Sunday Times The contest rules define a task, and a malicious component. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Contest rules do not necessarily require entrants to comply with voluntary international band plans. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although directly splitting prize winnings was banned by contest rules, he could legally pay for his daughter's education and buy presents. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Details of her participation were leaked, a violation of contest rules, and she was disqualified. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The game's creators offered $100 for all the songs they choose to put in the game, and $1,000 as the first prize for the contest winner. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The contest winner was decided based on the results of an online poll. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The first contest winner turned in a collection of 20, 364 cards over the 18-month duration of the contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Customers mocked him, the bag proved uncomfortable and, in the end, he said, the only contest winner was the store's manager, who received a color television. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They were conceived by contest winners. The Sun If there is a contested election, these are likely to become the focus of campaigning. Times, Sunday Times (2006) She said she 'put on half a stone' filming the outdoor cooking contest. The Sun Take your seats for the last course of the cooking contest. The Sun Then there was a collection of recipes from the pinto-bean cooking contest, with classics such as pinto-bean mock chicken legs and pinto-bean fudge. Times, Sunday Times For a cooking contest to succeed, sure, you need sweetness and wholesomeness, but it should barely conceal a seething cauldron of loneliness and despair. Times, Sunday Times He also spent time teaching fencing to young people and entering cooking contests. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Games, prizes and a costume contest are included. Houston Chronicle The costume contest will begin at 6:30 p.m. Houston Chronicle She also will judge a costume contest and lead the opening parades. Houston Chronicle Many events were planned, such as: guest speaking panels, gaming tournaments, live music, pro-wrestling and a costume contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are numerous parties and more than one costume contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Light entertainment was beginning to overwhelm the dance contest, and both elements of the show are essential. Times, Sunday Times But, more notably, it's the first year that the venue has showcased the winner of its online global dance contest. Times, Sunday Times The others said she was ruthlessly ambitious for an amateur dance contest. Times, Sunday Times When he last went back, to judge a dance contest at an under-18s nightclub, he was booed - and not for the first time. Times, Sunday Times Meanwhile, there's also a dance contest and it's ballroom night. The Sun There's a chilli eating contest — if you're feeling brave. Times, Sunday Times It's a soba noodle eating contest, before you ask. Times,Sunday Times Organisers hope to set a new record this year and other events include a pumpkin pie eating contest and seed spitting competition. The Sun You don't need to be a courgetti devotee to become queasy at the unhealthy idea of treating dinner like an eating contest. Times, Sunday Times Terry gets disappointed, and then she remembers the pie eating contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When that electoral contest was annulled due to evidence of fraud, a second one was held a year later. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A second mechanism concerns the vulnerability of radical political groups participating in electoral contest to state repression. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Electoral contests and political disputes often have personal overtones and voter sway tends to be based on tradition. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These two parties had many strong electoral contests with the province's conservative parties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The attack began at 11:00 a.m., but what transpired was more of an endurance contest than a battle. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But men are not so good when it comes to extreme endurance contests such as ultramarathons. Times,Sunday Times It started as a popular fad in the 1920s and 1930s, when organized dance endurance contests attracted people to compete to achieve fame or win monetary prizes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When she decided to enter the contest, she never expected to get beyond the first round. Times, Sunday Times Luck will be at its hottest when you enter a contest with a holiday prize. The Sun Candidates need the backing of 33 of their colleagues to enter the contest. Times, Sunday Times When you enter a contest to keep a friend company, you'll both be winners. The Sun Luck increases when you enter a contest as a couple. The Sun She wrote in her high school's essay contest during her junior and senior years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The association sponsors a student essay contest, where first and second prize winners present papers at the annual conference. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rover vehicle was named through an essay contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She leaves college with her teaching degree and $1,000, which she won in an essay contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The essay contest spawned a well-known tax case, in which a winner avoided paying income tax on his prize money. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Not really a fair contest but then it wasn't across the pitch. The Sun In a fair contest on the ground they have the players to steal sufficient ball to make this an epic semi-final. Times,Sunday Times They want a fair contest for possession and an immediate release of the ball to keep the game flowing. Times,Sunday Times It had ceased to look like a fair contest. Times, Sunday Times I hope that he allows a fair contest for the ball on the floor because this fixture demands it. Times, Sunday Times This game would turn out to be the final contest in the league's three-year history. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Despite four consecutive victories, the clubs post-season hopes still came down to the seasons final contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The final contest was about someone who inspired you. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A win in the final contest would put us in a tie for first place. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These two players, are now then subject to a final contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Reward the person with the reddest nose, the rosiest cheeks or the coldest fingertips, and hold a contest to see who can make the best dragon's breath. Times, Sunday Times In 1802, the city decided to hold a contest for who could design the best new city hall. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The others then hold a contest whereby whichever of them got his horse to neigh first after sunrise shall become king. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1993, they decided to hold a contest for the best mole. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The two states were disqualified for holding their contests early. Times, Sunday Times Broadcasters have had to bid for the rights to host the contest since 2004 to avoid such problems from happening again. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There were fears that hosting the contest without a studio audience would ruin the atmosphere, but the reviews have been glowing. Times,Sunday Times Nine area community colleges hosted the contest. Houston Chronicle This was the third time that hosted the contest, the most recent previous occasion being in. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The stadium hosted the contest on four occasions in the 1980s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Unless, of course, it's a karaoke contest which, you'll be thrilled to learn, has nearly two months left to run. The Sun Try offering that at the next karaoke contest in your local. Times, Sunday Times She also won first place in a local karaoke contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Totally unexpectedly, in 2008, a carnival karaoke contest also sprung up at a theater cafe in the city. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Karaoke contests, sumo matches, and other forms of entertainment are often organized in conjunction with matsuri. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A top agency was hired to launch a contest for an anthem as a way of encouraging adults to improve 'literacy skills'. The Sun The district has decided to launch a contest to design a new mascot and logo. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The company rectified the problem by launching a contest to come up with the best translation. Globe and Mail The following year, the municipality launched a contest to make the best suggestion for the tram networks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 2010 the school launched a contest to choose one. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The story won a second-place silver badge in a monthly contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 User contests were introduced during this period; the first monthly contest, which was held in 1998, received 253 entries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The holds monthly contests and gives out awards for hams who make contacts using this unique mode of communication. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He started the concept of arranging monthly contests in online judges. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Her endorsement tipped the balance in nomination contest after nomination contest. Times, Sunday Times In the nomination contest, four states held primaries to select national convention delegates. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On occasion, a political party's head office may bypass the nomination contest and directly appoint its preferred candidate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If the winners of these party nomination contests - and others like them - prevail in today's election, they will arrive to reinforce an informal, unelected parallel leadership structure. Times, Sunday Times In 2003, the act was extended to cover the nomination contests of registered parties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Is this a personality contest? The Sun It's going to turn into a personality contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After winning a personality contest in college, people started questioning him about his fitness and physical appearance which urged him to research about fitness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The magazine also runs an annual photography contest and publishes the winning entries both in the magazine itself and on its website. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Local businesses, organizations, and government localities organize photography contests and other events to boost tourism around the reef. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These contests have included writing captions, designing aircraft liveries, photography contests. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The fourteenth-century depicts a group of craftsmen who held a poetry contest in emulation of those of the nobility. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She was listed here as a poetry contest judge. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The museum offers guided tours, exhibits, an audio-visual show, events, a poet-in-residence program, and an annual poetry contest for local grade school students. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He participated at some poetry contests and won numerous awards and accolations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the meantime, he also plans to return to participate at the poetry contests. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It sounds like a popularity contest out of step with the notion that talent will out. Times, Sunday Times She didn't knock on doors or take votes like it was a popularity contest. Christianity Today It celebrates eccentricity, effort and imagination, and it's about as enriching and fair-minded as a sequin-studded popularity contest can be. Times, Sunday Times In any popularity contest, you are the star. The Sun But this popularity contest may be no more. The Sun Her comments put paid to speculation that the two had made up after an acrimonious separation during the 2007 presidential contest. Times, Sunday Times It also stamps this presidential contest as emphatically one of opposites. Times, Sunday Times In a presidential contest she would score 13% of the vote, they say. Times, Sunday Times There are many good reasons why populist candidates are doing well at this early stage of the presidential contest. Times, Sunday Times The elections we had been so keen on became so plagued by fraud that, after $200m had been spent on last year's presidential contest, no final result was released. Times, Sunday Times This is the dramatic backdrop for the most compelling primary contest so far in the battle for the Republican presidential nomination. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The party 's primary contest is expected by many people to produce the next president in the election in May. Times, Sunday Times (2016) She admits that standing in the party 's primary contest would upset many members. Times, Sunday Times (2012) It was fun when it was still an amateur singing contest; now it looks like the shareholders' conference for the entertainment industry. Times, Sunday Times Producers asked the 19-year-old to enter after she won a singing contest for foreigners. The Sun Seven celebs will battle it out in a singing contest, judged by themselves. The Sun The singing contest bumbles along, entertaining enough but hardly threatening to set the charts on fire. Times, Sunday Times Either that or follow right through and make it a singing contest. Times, Sunday Times Once a contest sponsor receives all the logs from the competitors, the logs undergo a process known as cross-checking. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After they are received by the contest sponsor, logs are checked for accuracy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After the conclusion of a contest, each station must submit its operational log to the contest sponsor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This was a great sticking point between herself and the contest sponsors and organizers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Club members may be able to pressure contest sponsors to be liberal in scoring, and some members may also be on the sponsoring oversight committees. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Such minuscule measures are the difference between being special and immortal at this ultimate level of sporting contest. The Sun Sporting contest or social event? Times, Sunday Times Obviously there are one or two broader arguments to be had about incentivisation, morality, the purity of the sporting contest, etc. Times, Sunday Times This was not so much a sporting contest as a serious medical condition. The Sun When the world's largest nation hosts the world's greatest sporting contest, anything could happen - inside the stadium or out. Times, Sunday Times The election has become a tight contest. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Yet his goal was enough to settle a tight contest. The Sun (2010) I just feel that Wales have a bit more momentum and home advantage is a huge thing in what looks to be such a tight contest. The Sun (2013) The upcoming contest looks a bit like the old pre-war fairgrounds, where a bruiser with a broken nose challenges all-comers to a fight, whatever shape, age or decrepitude. The Sun For winning this weigh-in, the family of three got to decide from their own families who will be the champions for the upcoming contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The weekly show analyzed previous games and previewed upcoming contests. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 How can you top the leaderboard week in, week out, and not win the contest? The Sun What kind of would you like to see win the contest? The Sun I thought he was a natural on the ice and had the potential to win the contest. The Sun You can win a contest, as a team of two, and feel close again. The Sun Your ability to stay calm helps you win a contest. The Sun Our adventurous writing contest invites the really talented undiscovered to step forward - no agents, no previously published authors. Times, Sunday Times She later served as a judge for this creative writing contest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A writer since early childhood, she won a writing contest at age fourteen and another at seventeen. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each creative writing contest has four categories, based upon the type of writing and the age level of the participants. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The writing contest includes both students from the elementary and secondary level. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 论争, 对…提出抗辩 Japanese: 競争, 異議を唱える |
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