| 词汇 | competing |
| 释义 | competing present participle ofcompete compete verb[ I ] uk /kəmˈpiːt/ us /kəmˈpiːt/ B2 to try to be more successful than someone or something else: 竞争 It's difficult for a small shop to compete against/with the big supermarkets.小超市很难同大超市竞争。 Both 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 Are you competing in the 100 metres?你参加100米赛跑吗？ The 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 runner runners and ridersidiom sharp elbowsidiom sharp-elbowed sharpen (something) up sharpen your elbowsidiom snap You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Competing in sport Examples of competingcompeting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In particular, problems of coexistence and exclusion of competing species have been theoretically investigated using models based on partial and ordinary differential equations. Experiments with doubly driven film flow, in which gravitational and surface tension gradient stresses are competing, have uncovered some new phenomena. 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. 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. If this problem is not solved, too many parties will be competing with the result that several parties are shut out of the legislature. For the first half of the twentieth century, however, ' care ' and ' control ' existed as symbiotic rather than potentially competing elements within policy frameworks. The managers and owners interviewed all saw themselves as supplying a standard service and competing on price, as agencies. Moreover, agencies that funded wheat production research had little interest in funding research for a competing crop. In other words, closer historical scrutiny should reveal that pandits represent a wide range of competing identities, intellectual programs, and social agendas. So many identities competing for so many agendas. 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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