COMPETE WITH/TRY TO BEATsomeone who competes in a contest 竞争者;选手;参加竞赛者
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contestant• Contestants for the game show go through a toughselection process.• Asking contestants to now get real and find an individualstyle is confusing the game.• Each contestant has to answer questions on a variety of subjects.• The bout is over as soon as either contestantachieves that score.• The next contestant is Alice Myers from Vancouver.• The next contestant is Diane Massa of BayRidge.• At 8am each morning, the 80-oddcontestants were expected to run a full marathon while it was still cool enough.• a beautypageantcontestant• Suzanne was a beauty-queen contestant in college.• The questions that contestants must answer get more difficult as the game goes on.• In such cases, the officialacting on behalf of the contestant may approach the arbitrator directly.• Dealers would put down the phones, crowding in a circle round the contestants.• By the end of the show, the contestants are perched on piles of pillows of varyingheights.• The first half of the match has finished with the contestants level at 6 points each.• Cunningly simple: two contestants, three rounds and a panel of three celebrity judges.