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单词 contend
释义
contend
verb
uk
/kənˈtend/us
/kənˈtend/

contendverb(COMPETE)

[I]
tocompeteinordertowinsomething:
竞争；争夺
There are threeworld-classtennisplayerscontendingforthistitle.有3位世界顶级网球选手争夺这项冠军。
He's contendingagainstsomeone withtwicehisexperience.他在和经验比他丰富一倍的人竞争。
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 toe to toeidiom
  • hyper-competitive
  • in the gameidiom
  • intercollegiate
  • jostle
  • runners and ridersidiom
  • showing
  • slugfest
  • snap atsomeone'sheelsidiom
  • super-competitive
  • toe
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contendverb(CLAIM)

[T+ (that)]formal
to say that something istrueor is afact:
声称；断言；主张
Thelawyercontended(that)herclienthad never been near thesceneof thecrime.该律师声称她的委托人从未走近过犯罪现场。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Assertions & asserting
  • affirm
  • affirmation
  • airing
  • assert
  • assertion
  • attestation
  • beg
  • gaslight
  • hate speech
  • laysomethingon the lineidiom
  • maintain
  • makesomething/someoneout
  • plead
  • pretend
  • putyourfoot downidiom
  • self-affirmation
  • send
  • send a messageidiom
  • setyourselfup assomething
  • shout/proclaimsomethingfrom the rooftopsidiom
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Phrasal verb

contend withsomething
(Definition ofcontendfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

contend| American Dictionary

contend
verb
us
/kənˈtend/

contendverb(COMPETE)

[I]
tocompeteinordertowinsomething or toachieveapositionofleadership:
Thetoptennisplayersin theworldare contending for thistitle.

contendverb(CLAIM)

tostateas thetruth;claim:
[+ that clause]I contend that anovelshouldtellastoryandtellit well.

Phrasal verb

contend withsomething/someone
(Definition ofcontendfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcontend

contend
As already noted, he contended that foreigners would strengthen the national organism by assimilating into it.
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The best-known response to the ideal-world thesis contends that proposition (2) is not logically necessary.
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What is important, he contends, is jurisdictional control.
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The term "willful" seemed to escape proper notice, partially because the petitioners never contended that they had not acted willfully.
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The unity they posited in the nation contended with invidious racial, ethnic, and religious distinctions.
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She contends that it worked remarkably well, and it helped to secure the status of the estates throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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He contended that the preference was entirely aesthetic.
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In practice, all kinds of balances were struck between these contending factors, but verbal explanations have been inadequate.
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Discussions are civilized affairs: verbal interchanges between contending parties reveal that a mistake has been made that needs to be corrected.
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Within this political system, various world views contended with one another and periods marked by the domination of changing substructures followed one another.
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He opts out of judging contending estimates ; he is, after all, a generalist.
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Now the individual's new commitment to the true faith contended with the ancient loyalties of the subject to one's liege lord.
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The author wishes to connect political economy and environmental change and contends that gender is the factor that links them.
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They present evidence from neural network modeling, contending that cognitive neuroscience has no definitive answers.
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Serious tensions arose as older and newer groups (the latter representing entrepreneurs and the professional middle classes) contended for political and economic power.
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