🔍 牛津詞典
🔍 朗文詞典 🎯
🔍 劍橋詞典
🔍 柯林斯詞典
🔍 麥美倫詞典
🔍 韋氏詞典

檢索以下詞典：
(Mr. Ng 不推薦使用 Google 翻譯！)
最近搜尋：
TOEFL IELTS BNC: 3058 COCA: 4346

rival

Word family 
ri·val1 /ˈraɪvəl/ ●●○ W3 noun [countableC]  
1  COMPETE WITH/TRY TO BEATa person, group, or organization that you compete with in sport, business, a fight etc 对手，竞争者 SYN competitor
 This gives the company a competitive advantage over its rivals.
这使该公司与其对手相比具有一项竞争优势。
rival for
 his chief rival for the job
和他竞争这份工作的主要对手
 He finished 39 seconds ahead of his main rival.
他比主要对手早39秒到达终点。
 She was 2 minutes faster than her nearest rival.
她比紧随其后的对手快两分钟。
 a game against their old rivals, Manchester United
和他们的老对手曼联队的比赛
 They still remain bitter rivals (=hate each other).
他们仍是死敌。
 Their sales have now overtaken those of their arch-rival (=main or strongest rival).
他们的销售额现已超过了主要竞争对手。
rival company/firm/team etc
 Sheena left her job and went to work for a rival company.
希娜辞了职，转投一家对手公司工作。
2  EQUALone of a group of things that people can choose between 竞争的事物
 The newest model has several advantages over its rivals.
最新的型号和其竞争品牌相比有几大优势。
n COLLOCATIONS
adjectives
somebody's main/chief rival
Who is the champion's main rival?
somebody's nearest/closest rival (=the one that is closest to beating them)
She finished 7.1 seconds ahead of her nearest rival.
a great rival (=an important rival for a long time)
Oxford and Cambridge University have always been great rivals
somebody's arch-rival (=their main or strongest rival)
McDonald's and its arch-rival Burger King
a serious rival
He knows that he has no serious rival for the job.
an old rival
Hindhead had a convincing victory over their old rivals, Frensham.
a potential rival (=one who is likely to be a rival in the future)
Their business is a potential rival for ours.
a bitter rival (=one that hates you)
They have long been bitter rivals.
a political rival
At the time, France and Britain were major political rivals.
a presidential rival
His presidential rivals have vigorously attacked him.
rival + NOUN
rival factions/groups
My task is to unite the rival factions within the party.
a rival team
The rival team's fans were in the other part of the ground.
a rival gang
The street is a war zone between two rival gangs.
rival fans/supporters
There were fights between rival fans after the match.
a rival company/firm
It may have to merge with a rival company to stay in business.
Examples from the Corpus
rival• The two teams have always been rivals.• The fight started as an argument between rival gang members.• They do not have to do down rivals in order to benefit themselves.• Like Medea, she plots revenge on her rival, the bride-to-be, and threatens her own child.• The cult of Mithras was Christianity's main rival at the time of Constantine.• So far no rivals have matched the rave reviews E ma won for the film.• Police and prosecutors, especially those in the pay of rival cartels, have been a special Arellano target.• Mr Reaves claims the industry connections and combined experience give his funds an edge over rivals in picking turnaround candidates.• Sorry, Clinton only switched running mates for the evening to poke fun at Republican rival George Bush.• He knows that he has no serious rival for the job.• As with the tiger it is the male's warning to rivals to stay off its home range.
rival company/firm/team etc• She married a colleague who then left to work for a rival firm.• One woman was sacked the day after her wedding to a rival firm's employee.• But the battles in each market are as often against nationalism as against rival firms.• They have long acted independently, rather like managing directors of rival companies.• Dealers, sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms, would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms.• It has succeeded without any of the marketing hype, environmental or otherwise, that rival firms use to soft-soap their customers.• What's more, the rival teams have changed as well.• Two rival companies, Toshiba and Hitachi, saw a steep fall in profits.
rival2 ●○○ verb (rivalled, rivalling British EnglishBrE, rivaled, rivaling American EnglishAmE)  
[transitiveT]GOOD AT to be as good or important as someone or something else 与…匹敌，与…媲美 → unrivalled
 The college’s facilities rival those of Harvard and Yale.
这所学院的设施比得上哈佛和耶鲁。
 a stadium to rival any in the world
世上一流的体育场
Examples from the Corpus
rival• Organisers claim that the event will rival, if not eclipse, this year's Tall Ships extravaganza.• The new aeroplane would rival its competitors in terms of noise, range and versatility.• The weathermen said the storm had rivalled summer hurricanes in its intensity.• No other category of asset came close to rivalling that performance.• Chef Shawn's apple pie rivals the best I've tasted.• The prince built a vast palace, rivalling Versailles in size and opulence.
From Longman Business Dictionary
rivalri·val1 /ˈraɪvəl/ noun [countableC]
1a person, group, or organization that you compete with
The authorities hope that such changes will help Italian banks compete more effectively against European rivals.
rival for
The two men had been rivals for the top job three years ago.
Jack left his job and went to work for a rival company.
2one of a number of products that people can choose between
The car was a success because it met the needs of car buyers better than most of its rivals.
Your product needs to be better than rival products in precisely specified ways.
3rival bid/offerFINANCE a BID etc that is competing with another
Another travel company has now come in with a rival bid.
rivalrival2 verb (rivalled, rivalling British EnglishBrE, rivaled, rivaling) American EnglishAmE [transitiveT]
to be as good or important as someone or something else
This notebook computer rivals the power of some desk-top models.
Origin rival1
(1500-1600) Latin rivalis “someone who uses the same stream as another, rival in love”, from rivus “stream”
ri·val1 noun →n COLLOCATIONS1rival2 verb
LDOCE Online
Chinese
Syllable
Corpus

👨🏻‍🏫 Mr. Ng 朗文詞典 📚 – longman.mister5️⃣.net
切換為繁體中文
Site Uptime