challengers

英 [ˈtʃælɪndʒəz]

美 [ˈtʃæləndʒərz]

n.  (体育运动或政治的)挑战者
challenger的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (职位或头衔的)挑战者
  Achallengeris someone who competes with you for a position or title that you already have, for example being a sports champion or a political leader.
  1. Draskovic has emerged as the strongest challenger to the leader of the Serbian government...
     德拉什科维奇一跃成为塞尔维亚政府领导人最大的挑战者。
  2. The One Australia syndicate is to become the sixth challenger for the 1995 Americas Cup.
     名为“澳洲一号”的船队将成为争夺1995年美洲杯的第6个挑战者。

双语例句

• The battle between the two main challengers has been dominated by niggling personal issues and trivial disputes.
  这两位竞争对手之间的战争主要围绕琐碎的个人小事和争议展开。
• As the fortunes of his various potential challengers have waxed and waned, Mr Romney has maintained a statesmanlike indifference.
  不管他的各种挑战者的地位上升下降，罗姆尼保持了一种政治家的冷漠。
• We look at City and Chelsea as the main challengers and, if we finish above those two, we'll hopefully win the league.
  我们关注曼城和切尔西，因为他们是主要的挑战者。如果我们比他们排位高就很可能拿到冠军。
• When you meet challengers and obstacles, you have the resourcefulness and discipline to bear down and focus on these challenges.
  当你遇到挑战和障碍的时候，你会以耐力和责任感来承受，并集中精力来解决这些困难。
• But it needs challengers too.
  但它也需要挑战者。
• It's a sign to people that matter: major players and challengers to Kim Jong-il, says Daniel Pinkston, north-east Asia deputy project director at International Crisis Group.
  国际危机集团（InternationalCrisisGroup）东北亚地区项目副主管丹尼尔品克斯顿（DanielPinkston）表示：这是给那些紧要人士的一种信号：那些举足轻重的人以及金正日的挑战者。
• Despite Tottenham's continued improvement, Ferguson believes United's closest challengers will come only from the usual suspects.
  虽然热刺一直在进步，但爵爷相信曼联最大的竞争者还是老面孔。
• That victory put the Ukrainians beyond the reach of their nearest challengers, Dynamo Moscow.
  本场胜利使乌克兰人甩开了最强有力的对手，莫斯科迪那摩队。
• His closest rival among a long list of challengers, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, has34 percent.
  在众多候选人中与他最接近的竞争对手、前外交部长阿卜杜拉获得了34%的选票。
• For the likes of Nokia it meant taking on China-based challengers by increasing the rate of product development and outsourcing some manufacturing.
  对诺基亚（nokia）这样的企业来说，这意味着通过提高产品开发速度、外包部分制造流程，来迎战中国的挑战者。