contend
基本释义
- v.
- 声称，主张; 对付; 争夺
词性变化
- 第三人称单数:contends;
- 过去式:contended;
- 过去分词:contended;
- 现在分词:contending;
实用例句
Nurses often have to contend with violent or drunken patients.
护士经常不得不对付粗暴的或喝醉酒的病人。
牛津词典
Three armed groups were contending for power.
三个武装集团在争夺权力。
牛津词典
I would contend that the minister's thinking is flawed on this point.
我倒认为部长的想法在这一点上有漏洞。
牛津词典
It is time, once again, to contend with racism...
又一次到了与种族主义战斗的时刻了。
American businesses could soon have a new kind of lawsuit to contend with.
美国公司可能很快就要有一种新型的官司去应付了。
The government contends that he is fundamentalist...
政府认定他是原教旨主义者。
'You were just looking,' contends Samantha. 'I was the one doing all the work.'
“你不过是看看而已。”萨曼莎争辩道，“什么活儿都是我来干。”
...the two main groups contending for power.
两大集团争权夺利
...with 10 UK construction yards contending with rivals from Norway, Holland, Italy and Spain.
10家英国建造厂与来自挪威、荷兰、意大利和西班牙的对手展开竞争
Then there is the rivalry between India and Pakistan to contend with.
然后要处理的是印度和巴基斯坦之间的敌对问题.
期刊摘选
Economics must still contend with scarcity as a basic fact of life.
经济学仍然必须和稀缺相周旋,把稀缺当作生活中一种基本的事实.
辞典例句
What increase rate can contend exclusively to it is rich media and video advertisement.
增长率唯一能与之抗衡的是富媒体和视频广告.
期刊摘选
Some researchers contend that carcinogens may turn healthy cells into cancer cells.
有些研究人员认为,致癌物质能使健康细胞变成癌细胞.
《简明英汉词典》
A wise man does not contend with a fool.
智者不与愚人争.
期刊摘选
More recently, he has had to contend with thorny personnel issues.
最近, 他已经不得不参加棘手的个人事件.
期刊摘选
This proposal to contend for Kiangsi erred only in setting a time limit of one year.
上面争取江西的话,不对的是规定一年为期.
期刊摘选
The asylum seekers had to contend with continued bureaucratic obstruction.
寻求政治庇护的人得不断地应付官僚主义的层层阻挠.
《简明英汉词典》
He has too much to contend with.
他要应付的事太多.
《简明英汉词典》
Stress is caused by daily having to contend with crowds of people and restricted space.
压力是由于生活中周围的人群及有限的空间所造成的.
期刊摘选
The impact will, moreover , be felt beyond national borders , they contend.
此外, 他们还认为,这种影响将超越国界.
期刊摘选
They had to contend against drought.
他们必须跟干旱作斗争.
《简明英汉词典》
If he will contend with him , he cannot answer him one of a thousand.
3若愿意与他争辩, 千中之一也不能回答.
期刊摘选
The authors contend that reason lies in absence of the definition and measurement methodology repertory.
这种现象的主要原因在于国内在战略变革的定义与测量方法论上储备不足.
期刊摘选
I have to contend with difficulties.
我得与困难作斗争.
《简明英汉词典》
The firm is too small to contend against large international companies.
这家公司太小,无法与国际性的大公司竞争.
《简明英汉词典》
She had to contend, moreover, with a third problem.
此外, 她还得解决第三重困难.
辞典例句
The firm is too small to contend against [ with ] large international companies.
这家公司太小,无法与国际性的大公司 抗争.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
A hundred schools of thought contend.
百家争鸣.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
Study of and rhetoric makes a man able to contend.
学逻辑和修辞让一个人变得能言善道,辩才无碍.
期刊摘选
真题例句
Songdo's backers contend that it's still early, and business space is filling up—about 70 percent of finished offices are now occupied.
2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section BKnowledge Ecology International contends that the Supreme Court's ruling could have "profound effects" on other biotech industries.
出自-2013年12月阅读原文But Schweitzer contends the "mounting causal evidence" linking goal-setting and harmful behavior should be studied to help spotlight issues that merit caution and further investigation.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.
出自-2012年考研阅读原文英英释义
1. maintain or assert;
"He contended that Communism had no future"
2. have an argument about something
3. to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation;
"They contested the outcome of the race"
4. compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
5. come to terms or deal successfully with;
"We got by on just a gallon of gas"
"They made do on half a loaf of bread every day"
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