contending

英 [kənˈtendɪŋ]

美 [kənˈtendɪŋ]

v.  (尤指在争论中)声称，主张，认为; 竞争; 争夺
contend的现在分词

现在分词：contending　复数：contendings　

计算机

BNC.22791 / COCA.16234

柯林斯词典

• VERB 处理;对付;解决
  If you have tocontend witha problem or difficulty, you have to deal with it or overcome it.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• VERB 声称;争辩;主张
  If youcontend thatsomething is true, you state or argue that it is true.
  1. The government contends that he is fundamentalist...
     政府认定他是原教旨主义者。
  2. '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。”
• V-RECIP 竞争;争夺
  If youcontend withsomeoneforsomething such as power, you compete with them to try to get it.
  1. ...the two main groups contending for power.
     两大集团争权夺利
  2. ...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
  3. ...a binding political settlement between the contending parties.
     角力各派间一项具有约束力的政治协议

双语例句

• The state is a product of a psychological struggle between the contending passions of pride and fear.
  他认为，国家是人内心强烈的自豪感，与恐惧感抗争的心理产物。
• Her eyes showed that she was contending with a problem.
  她的眼睛显示出她心里正有一个为难的问题。
• Interestingly, the decision to coarsen can be made independent to the number of threads contending for the locks.
  有趣的是，是否进行锁粗化，与竞争锁的线程数量是无关的。
• He was tiresome in contending for the value of his own labors.
  他老为他自己劳动的价值而争强斗胜，令人生厌。
• The space war game was the latest action of the United States ′ contending for space hegemony.
  太空军事演习是美国争霸太空的最新动向，分析了太空战的发展对未来作战产生的影响；
• The captains of the contending teams.
  参与争夺的各个队的队长。
• Sihanouk might emerge in an important, perhaps decisive, role as a link between contending forces and as their balancer.
  西哈努克就有可能作为两个对立势力之间的联结人和平衡者发挥重要的，也许是决定性的作用。
• They had now attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the midst of the darkness and the lights, a goddess and a giant contending.
  现在它们有了巨大的身材；他仿佛看见在他自己心里，在我们先前提到的那种广漠辽阔的天地里，在黑暗和微光中，有一个女神和一个女魔，正在酣战。
• He reinterprets American history in the context of the accessibility of information, contending that the recent spread of the Internet has produced the fourth in a series of "information revolutions" in the United states.
  他在信息可及性的背景下重新解释了美国历史，认为近年来互联网的普及引发了美国的第四次“信息革命”。
• The two nations have been contending about the rights to deep-sea fishing in their waters.
  这两个国家一直为他们在水域中的深水捕鱼权问题争吵不休。