| 单词 | contest |
| 释义 | con·test I. transitive verb 1. < contest a seat in congress > < contest an issue > < contest a prize > < contest every inch of land in their retreat > 2. < contest a suit > : controvert intransitive verb < contest with an opponent in argument > < contest against too strict regulations > Synonyms: < the criminal resisted captivity > < resist the pressure of political orthodoxy > < resist the enemy attacks > withstand suggests a successful resistance so that if nothing is gained, at least nothing is lost < most plants cannot withstand frost > < withstand the impact of humiliation and disease > < withstand the attacks by air > contest and oppose suggest a more positive action against a threatening or objectionable force. contest suggests the raising of the issue, the bringing into open question of the matter over which there is conflict < the board's power to inspect private welfare agencies was later contested and restricted — American Guide Series: New York > < it is impossible to contest your principle — George Meredith > < attempt to reconcile contesting parties > oppose, perhaps the most general of the terms, can indicate almost any degree of attitude from mild objection to positive belligerence, and can suggest any action from a mere contrastive setting of one thing against another to open violence against an opposing force, although in all instances positive action is implied < the chronic objector, who opposes every popular measure — S.M.Crothers > < he had been much opposed by women, crossed, balked, wronged, misled — Francis Hackett > < Whipple was said to be the only man in public life who dared oppose wholesale executions of the Sioux captives — American Guide Series: Minnesota > < human art, as opposed to mere tools and mechanical contrivances — Edward Clodd > fight and combat suggest strong action. fight puts the initiative clearly in the hands of the subject of the verb and stresses the forthrightness or belligerence of the action < fight the enemy on all fronts > < fight the forces of evil > < fight extradition > combat stresses more the force or impact, though it says nothing about the success, of counteraction < combat pollution in streams > < combat aggression > < combat business depressions > conflict and antagonize do not fit easily into the scale. conflict, never used transitively, indicates merely the fact of competition, friction, or hostility between two forces < the two men conflict on all major principles > < one nation can conflict with another in territorial claims > < two logical principles often conflict > antagonize once carried the idea of placing oneself in opposition or in the position of antagonist but in current general use carries only the idea of arousing antagonism or making antagonistic < to antagonize the other students in the class > Synonym: see in addition compete. II. 1. < what mighty contests rise from trivial things — Alexander Pope > < reelected almost without a contest > 2. < an oratorical contest > Synonyms: < boundary controversies or other contests between states (as, for instance, the litigation arising out of Chicago's attempted use of the waters of the Great Lakes) — Felix Frankfurter > < an athletic contest > < prominent among the great events which the 18th century witnessed was the contest between England and France for the control of the Mississippi valley — G.M.Capers > conflict implies a jarring clash ranging from discordant argument through any sustained active opposition up to warfare < he then returned to Massachusetts with authority to enlist troops, which led to a conflict with the state authorities — C.R.Fish > < primitive competition was a conflict as to which should murder the other man and his wife and children; modern competition in the shape of war still takes this form — Bertrand Russell > combat implies an encounter, often an armed one < these progressive leaders in both parties rose only after bitter struggle. They were the product of more than a lively contest. Sometimes the contests were combats — W.A.White > < he [Alexander the Great] had mastered, in defiance of fatigue, hardship, and combat … unknown Indian regions — George Grote > fight implies a rigorous strenuous struggle, sustained at high pitch for a time at least, and resolute and determined < the fight at the rampart > < the fight for world peace > < mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. That current flows fast and furious — Virginia Woolf > affray, now somewhat literary in suggestion, may indicate a wild, confused, sharp fight < the suppressing of riots and affrays — Edmund Burke > < affray. — Fighting together of two or more persons in a public place to the terror of the persons lawfully there — General Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts > fray, also somewhat literary, may apply to any fight or combat marked by quick individual action against a background of noisy confusion < a fray is a fight in a public place to the terror of the people, in which acts of violence occur or dangerous weapons are exhibited or threatened to be used — U.S. Manual for Courts-Martial > |
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