一、详细释义:


v.

竞争 [I]


例句:

All the teams have to compete for the division championship team.

所有球队都要争夺赛区冠军。


例句:

We can compete with the best teams.

我们能与最好的队竞争。


对抗;比得上 [I]


例句:

These paintings can't compete in expressive power with those ones.

这些水彩画在表达能力方面比不上那些。


比赛 [I]


例句:

He at last got a chance to compete in the Olympics.

他终于获得了参加奥运会比赛的机会。


例句:

He competed in a wheelchair.

他是坐在轮椅上参加的比赛。


二、词义辨析:


compete,contend,contest,rival

这些动词均可表示“竞争”之意。 compete普通用词,含义广泛。既可指体育活动等活动中争取优胜的相互竞争,也可指为了自己的利益与他人竞争。 contend指为战胜或击败对手进行不懈努力,强调拼搏。也可指口头上进行有对立情绪或严重分歧的争论。 contest指为争夺土地、阵地、权力或荣誉等而展开的竞争。 rival指在两方或多方的竞争或比赛中,谁都想战胜或比得上对手。


三、参考例句:


Always they compete for food.

他们总是在为食物而竞争。


They had to compete wearing no clothes.

他们必须赤膊上阵进行比赛。


We can compete with the best teams.

我们能与最好的队竞争。


My handwriting cannot compete with his.

我的书法不及他。


Nobody can compete against his fate.

谁也不能与命运抗争。


We can compete with the best teams.

我们能与最好的队竞争。


Don't compete, contemplate, agrees Saraswati Chandra.

“不要竞争,要沉思,”SaraswatiChandra赞同道。


Could aid agencies be made to compete?

能够让援助机构相互竞争吗?


The bunny does not compete with religion.

复活节兔子并不与宗教相争。


We used to compete on just cost.

我们曾经仅仅在成本上竞争。