| 单词 | contend |
| 释义 | con·tend intransitive verb 1. < the Manichean theory of a good and an evil spirit contending on nearly equal terms — W.R.Inge > < the African Queen might soon be contending with difficulties of refueling — C.S.Forester > 2. < stubbornly contended for what he believed to be the truth — H.E.Starr > transitive verb 1. < contending that literature must serve a moral function — C.I.Glicksberg > 2. < she contended every point, objected to every request — Margaret Mead > Synonyms: < the lusty wrestlers shall contend — William Wordsworth > < ladies contended for the honor of being taken down to dinner by the brilliant French journalist — W.C.Brownell > < since they had left the Espanola country behind them, they had contended first with wind and sandstorms, and now with cold — Willa Cather > cope may imply contending with an adversary on even or better than even terms and defeating or parrying his efforts, or facing adversity, difficulty, exigency and finding expedients < a boy of barely sixteen cannot stand against the moral pressure of a father and mother who have always oppressed him any more than he can cope physically with a powerful full-grown man — Samuel Butler †1902 > < the National Government had to cope with … provincial separatism — Owen & Eleanor Lattimore > < the inadequate medical staff, without drugs, could not cope with the situation — W.B.Hesseltine > fight is likely to involve notions of more strenuous activity or even violence than contend or cope; it suggests constant vigorous effort < while Spaniards fought back with gun and Gospel to retain control of territories painfully won — R.A.Billington > < the advocates of the old classical education have been gallantly fighting a losing battle for over half a century — W.R.Inge > < he had fought like a demon every inch of the way against poverty and discouragement — A.W.Long > battle and war are more figurative; the first suggests contending as under battle conditions, with fierce fighting, resolute attack and defense, and changing fortunes < grimy rescue teams working in shifts battled gas and smoke tonight attempting to reach an estimated sixty men still entombed by a Christmastide mine explosion — New York Times > < thou wouldst have nobly stirred thyself and battled for the right — William Wordsworth > the second suggests sustained struggle as under war conditions < to war against my people and my knights — Alfred Tennyson > < spent his life warring against war, and disease, and poverty — V.L.Parrington > < housewife that is forever warring with the dust — Edith Sitwell > Synonym: see in addition compete. |
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