| 单词 | compete |
| 释义 | com·pete 1. < compete with top-notch performers > < a team that competes against other teams > < compete for top honors > < the children competed with one another in seeing who could eat the most > 2. a. < the steam locomotive could no longer compete with the diesel > b. < rayon is seriously competing with wool in … fall and winter clothing — Desmond Reilly > Synonyms: < New Hampshire cannot compete with its neighboring State of Maine in raising potatoes — American Guide Series: N.H > < the dinosaurs were unable to compete successfully with the smaller mammals > < only at its best does the drama compete with the novel in finalities — Bernard De Veto > < the teams competing in the tournament > contend may suggest vigorous striving and struggling against an equal or stronger adversary < a gray stone castle, for whose keep Bruces and Comyns and Macdowalls contended seven centuries ago — John Buchan > < two Greek schools of thought, the Stoic and the Epicurean, contended for the allegiance of Romans who aspired to philosophy — Benjamin Farrington > < the passions and hopes which he had excited had become too strong for him to contend against — J.A.Froude > contest is often a close synonym of compete; typically, it may apply to a struggle that is limited, bounded, and definite in outcome, as a debate, race, match, fight, or battle < New Orleans was … contesting with New York for first place among American ports — American Guide Series: Louisiana > |
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