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词汇 contest
释义 contest
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkɒn.test/ us /ˈkɑːn.test/

contestnoun[C] (COMPETITION)


B1
a competition to do better than other people, usually in which prizes are given: 比赛;竞赛
a dance/sports contest舞蹈/体育比赛
beauty contestShe's won a lot of beauty contests.她多次在选美大赛中获胜。
The winner of tonight's talent contest will be decided by clapometer.今晚才艺比拚的获胜者将由观众的掌声决定。
Both sides played well - it was a very even contest.双方打得都很精彩——这是场势均力敌的比赛。
It's a real feather in our cap to be representing Britain in this contest.
She is one of the front-runners in the contest.她是竞赛中的领先者之一。
The organizers say it's a fair contest but who knows what goes on backstage?组织者说这是一场公平的比赛,但谁知道背后有什么名堂呢?
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Competitions, & parts of competitions
bathing beauty
battle of witsidiom
be a game of two halvesidiom
beauty contest
beauty pageant
benefit match
bowl
championship
elimination tournament
kickabout
non-game
non-major
omnium
on your marks, get set, go!idiom
postgame
Rafferty's rules
round robin
starter
tournament
winning post

contestnoun[C] (ATTEMPT)


an attempt, usually against difficulties, to win an election or to get power or control: (为赢得选举或权力而进行的)争取,争夺
contest forThe contest for the leadership of the party was very bitter.该党领袖职务的竞选争夺非常激烈。
The primary in Iowa is the first contest for the Republican nomination.爱荷华州的初选是争夺共和党提名候选人的第一站。
The party leadership contest has let the genie of change out of the bottle.
After a bitter contest, he became party leader.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Elections
absentee
absentee ballot
absentee vote
absentee voter
absentee voting
enfranchisement
entrance poll
exit poll
first-past-the-post
flip
proportional representation
proxy
proxy vote
proxy voter
proxy voting
vote something through
voting
voting booth
voting machine
voting slip

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Power to control
contest
verb[ T ]
uk /kənˈtest/ us /kənˈtest/

contestverb[T] (ARGUE)


If you contest a formal statement, a claim, a judge's decision, or a legal case, you say formally that it is wrong or unfair and try to have it changed: 质疑;辩驳;驳斥
We will certainly contest any claims made against the safety of our products.我们肯定会驳斥任何批评我们产品安全性的说法。
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Refusing & rejecting
abjuration
abnegate
abnegation
bar
bat something/someone away
decline
disavow
gainsay
oppositional
opt
pass on
pass something up
punt on something
rebel
refuse
regret
sb wouldn't touch something/someone with a bargepole/barge poleidiom
tear
wash your hands of somethingidiom
would not do something for all the tea in Chinaidiom

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Taking legal action

contestverb[T] (COMPETE)


to compete for something: 竞争;争夺;角逐
The medal is being keenly contested by eight gymnasts.八名体操运动员在激烈争夺这枚奖牌。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Competing in sport
bring
bring someone on
bye
bye week
catchup
contention
duel
explosive
field
go the distanceidiom
match
non-competitor
outduel
park the busidiom
partner
partner up
play bigidiom
square
step/move up a gearidiom
weigh

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Competing and contending (non-sporting)

contestverb[T] (ATTEMPT)


to attempt to win an election or to get power or control: 争取,争夺(选举胜利或权力)
She could win, since only two people are contesting the seat and the other candidate is very unpopular.她大有希望获胜,因为只有两个人争夺这个位置,而另一个候选人很不得人心。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Elections
absentee
absentee ballot
absentee vote
absentee voter
absentee voting
enfranchisement
entrance poll
exit poll
first-past-the-post
flip
proportional representation
proxy
proxy vote
proxy voter
proxy voting
vote something through
voting
voting booth
voting machine
voting slip

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Competing and contending (non-sporting)

contest | American Dictionary


contest
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑn·test/
a competition to do better than other people, esp. to win a prize or achieve a position of leadership or power:
In the last election, he survived a close contest against a political newcomer.

contestant


noun[ C ]us/kənˈtes·tənt/
She was once a contestant on a television quiz show.
contest
verb[ T ]
us/kənˈtest/
to oppose esp. in argument:
The campaign’s organizers hotly contest much of the criticism that has been leveled at them.
To contest is also to claim that a particular action is not fair or is not legal:
The lawyers may decide to contest the fine.

Examples of contest


contest
Inventing images: constructing and contesting gender in thinking about electroacoustic music.
As the fine arts became commodified and politicized, images of rule too became possessed, interpreted, and contested by subjects.
By monumentalising the past through the dead, the authority and status of particular elites are announced, confirmed or even contested.
Our understanding of the causal forces that bear upon our current circumstances is bound to be limited and often contested.
The office bloc ballot is designed so that the names of candidates are grouped together under the title of the office they are contesting.
Established candidates contested these nominations to the convention.
First, election contests in both chambers have tapered off considerably since the beginning of the twentieth century.
With nearly half of all constituencies contested, the election dramatically confirmed the extent to which divergent religious sensibilities provoked opposing political affiliations.
The machinery developed here is quite general, but the main application is to two-candidate contests.
Electorally contested 'swing' regions tended to be the beneficiaries of national subsidies rather than others.
In this period, there have been 352 races where incumbents have been contested and where data are available.
Our findings suggest that political discussion is infrequently public, modestly contested and sometimes marred by inequality.
Their status was contested by both markets and state hierarchies and their independence was constrained and manipulated.
While donors generously finance post-conflict or founding elections, funds become scarcer for subsequent electoral contests.
Among the terms used are 'minimal phrase ' and 'phonological word ', both of which have contested meanings in the literature on phonological theory.
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Collocations withcontest


contest

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annual contest
Making the record of the most home runs in annualcontest and most home runs in a single round.
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Wikipedia

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athletic contest
A pentathlon is an athleticcontest of five events.
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Hansard archive

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close contest
Interest in elections is greatest when there is a closecontest.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
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