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单词 compete
释义
compete
verb[I]
uk
/kəmˈpiːt/us
/kəmˈpiːt/
B2
totryto be moresuccessfulthan someone or somethingelse:
竞争
It'sdifficultfor asmallshopto competeagainst/withthebigsupermarkets.小超市很难同大超市竞争。
Bothgirlscompetefortheirfather'sattention.两个女孩在父亲面前争宠。
figurativeTurn themusicdown - I'm not competingagainst/withthatnoise(= I can't/won'ttrytospeaklouderthan thatmusic)!把音乐声调小点儿——我可不想跟那噪声较劲！
B1
to takepartin araceorcompetition:
参加赛跑；参与竞争；争夺
Are you competinginthe 100metres?你参加100米赛跑吗？
The twoathletesare competingforthegoldmedal.这两位选手在争夺金牌。
More examples
  • Men and women ought to beableto compete forjobson anequalfooting.
  • Thecompanyhas to beableto competeglobally.
  • Thecompanylacksthemarketingmuscleto compete withdruggiants.
  • We're only asmallbusinessand don't have thecapitalto compete with thebigboys.
  • For themagazineto besuccessful, it will have to compete in thebigleagueagainstleadingweeklywomen'smagazines.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Competing and contending (non-sporting)
  • be one up onsomeoneidiom
  • bid
  • cat
  • catchup
  • chancer
  • close-run
  • competition
  • contest
  • dare
  • go in forsomething
  • go toe to toeidiom
  • hyper-competitive
  • in the gameidiom
  • intercollegiate
  • runsomeonecloseidiom
  • runners and ridersidiom
  • showing
  • slugfest
  • snap atsomeone'sheelsidiom
  • toe
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Competing in sport
(Definition ofcompetefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

compete| American Dictionary

compete
verb[I]
us
/kəmˈpit/
to do anactivitywithothersandtryto dobetterthan they do:
Two TVstationsare competing for thetopspotin thestateof Iowa.
To compete is also to bepartof asportsactivityin which you aretryingtowin:
He will compete intrackthisspringandplayfootballnextfall.
(Definition ofcompetefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

compete| Business English

compete
verb[I]
uk
/kəmˈpiːt/us
totryto be moresuccessfulthan someone or somethingelse:
It'sdifficultto compete when there are so manysimilarbusinesses.
Smalllocalsupermarketsareworkinghard tocompete withthegiantchains.
Thecompanyhas notyetdemonstratedthetechnicalexpertisetocompete forinternationalcontractstobuildsatellites.
Startupcompaniesmustcompete againstestablishedcompanieswhich have had manyyearstobuilduptheirmarkets.
(Definition ofcompetefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcompete

compete
Besides nutrients and light, rice and weeds also competed for water.
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Obviously, by competing in parliamentary elections, partiescompetefor office, but this does not mean that their goal is actually to attain office.
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Experiments with doubly driven film flow, in which gravitational and surface tension gradient stresses are competing, have uncovered some new phenomena.
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Secondly, the wildlife has tocompetewith the surrounding agriculture for the habitat.
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The editors have striven to give the floor to competing points of view without losing technical focus.
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Factor structure and clinical validity of competing models of positive symptoms in schizophrenia.
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In that example, the runner strictly prefers realizing some culmination outcome (winning) in certain ways (by competing fairly) rather than others (by cheating).
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To hold that one theory is true is not to deny that there are not reasonable grounds for holding competing theories.
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These overstated positions reassure patients about physicians' primary beneficent outlook while allowing inevitable compromises to accommodate difficult situations or competing principles.
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Even a statement recognizing the value of competing linguistic standards is too much for some.
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Legal duties were thus relational statements about competing claims of individual rights.
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Foraging efficiencies of competing rodents: why do gerbils exhibit shared-preference habitat selection?
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Elections ended and rhetoric became dominated by panegyric and display oratory, rather than a means of competing with aristocratic rivals.
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We note that the pressure force cancompetewith the electrostatic force in the earlier stages of the self-similar expansion.
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If this problem is not solved, too many parties will be competing with the result that several parties are shut out of the legislature.
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