词汇 | compete |
释义 | compete verb[ I ] uk /kəmˈpiːt/ us /kəmˈpiːt/ B2 to try to be more successful than someone or something else: 竞争 compete againstIt's difficult for a small shop to compete against the big supermarkets. compete withIn the tournament, she was competing with the best players in the country. compete forBoth girls compete for their father's attention.两个女孩在父亲面前争宠。 figurativeTurn the music down - I'm not competing against/with that noise (= I can't/won't try to speak louder than that music)!把音乐声调小点儿——我可不想跟那噪声较劲! B1 to take part in a race or competition: 参加赛跑;参与竞争;争夺 compete inAre you competing in the 100 metres?你参加100米赛跑吗? compete forThe two athletes are competing for the gold medal.这两位选手在争夺金牌。 Men and women ought to be able to compete for jobs on an equal footing. The company has to be able to compete globally.这公司必须具有全球竞争力。 The company lacks the marketing muscle to compete with drug giants.这家公司缺乏销售实力,无法与药业巨头竞争。 We're only a small business and don't have the capital to compete with the big boys. For the magazine to be successful, it will have to compete in the big league against leading weekly women's magazines.为了成功,该杂志必须在高端市场和主流的女性周刊杂志竞争。 Competing and contending (non-sporting) as a dare be one up on someoneidiom cat catchup challenge someone to something/do something dare get one up on someoneidiom give someone/something a run for their moneyidiom go in for something go toe to toeidiom hyper-competitive jungle pit runners and ridersidiom sharp elbowsidiom sharp-elbowed sharpen (something) up sharpen your elbowsidiom snap toe You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Competing in sport compete | American Dictionarycompete verb[ I ] us/kəmˈpit/ to do an activity with others and try to do better than they do: Two TV stations are competing for the top spot in the state of Iowa. To compete is also to be part of a sports activity in which you are trying to win: He will compete in track this spring and play football next fall. compete | Business Englishcompete verb[ I ] uk /kəmˈpiːt/us to try to be more successful than someone or something else: It's difficult to compete when there are so many similar businesses. Small local supermarkets are working hard to compete with the giant chains. The company has not yet demonstrated the technical expertise to compete for international contracts to build satellites. Startup companies must compete against established companies which have had many years to build up their markets. Examples of competecompete Besides nutrients and light, rice and weeds also competed for water. Obviously, by competing in parliamentary elections, parties compete for office, but this does not mean that their goal is actually to attain office. Experiments with doubly driven film flow, in which gravitational and surface tension gradient stresses are competing, have uncovered some new phenomena. Secondly, the wildlife has to compete with the surrounding agriculture for the habitat. The editors have striven to give the floor to competing points of view without losing technical focus. Factor structure and clinical validity of competing models of positive symptoms in schizophrenia. In that example, the runner strictly prefers realizing some culmination outcome (winning) in certain ways (by competing fairly) rather than others (by cheating). To hold that one theory is true is not to deny that there are not reasonable grounds for holding competing theories. These overstated positions reassure patients about physicians' primary beneficent outlook while allowing inevitable compromises to accommodate difficult situations or competing principles. Even a statement recognizing the value of competing linguistic standards is too much for some. Legal duties were thus relational statements about competing claims of individual rights. Foraging efficiencies of competing rodents: why do gerbils exhibit shared-preference habitat selection? Elections ended and rhetoric became dominated by panegyric and display oratory, rather than a means of competing with aristocratic rivals. We note that the pressure force can compete with the electrostatic force in the earlier stages of the self-similar expansion. If this problem is not solved, too many parties will be competing with the result that several parties are shut out of the legislature. See all examples of compete These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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