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 Taliban claim responsibility for the execution-style street shooting, contending she was trying to spread Christianity.
  塔利班声称对以处决的方式杀害威廉斯承担责任，因为威廉斯在试图传播基督教。
• 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。
• The many brothers had a life-and-death fight in contending for the place of chieftain.
  他们兄弟几个为争狼主之位斗得你死我活。
• We widened the bottleneck by making these changes, and different workstreams weren't contending for resources.
  我们通过做一些改动来扩大瓶颈，这样不同的工作流就不会为资源而竞争了。
• Beginning open "flower" not much, is not large, had preyed contending size;
  初开的“花”并不多，也不大，有含苞的腊梅大小；
• 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 reason is that China is a semi-colonial country for which many imperialist powers are contending.
  这是半殖民地的环境，即许多帝国主义争夺中国的环境所造成的。
• 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。
• This means that multiple threads can access different portions of the Map simultaneously, without contending for the single collection-wide lock.
  这意味着多个线程可以同时地访问一个Map的不同部分，而不必争用单个的集合范围的锁。
• 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。