contest

1 At one point, the women held a contest among tables to see how many worms they could find in their food.

2 In the minds of almost all sports experts and most fans, it should have been no contest.

3 At school Iwon a scholarship and the first prize in a speech contest.

求学中,我曾获奖学金及演说比赛一等奖.

4 Estella had even written the date of the contest on the dress’s label.

5 The Hunt, as the contest came to be known, quickly wove its way into global culture.

6 The encounters were usually tense, with potential violence roiling just below the surface, but sometimes these confrontations were also tinged with comedy—as in the contest for seats in the council chambers.

7 "We just want to make sure our names are spelled right on the contest list."

8 "And if I were to contest the case, my whole story would come out and one of the most valuable aspects of the incident would be ruined."

9 He was still angry about the spitting contest.

10 Though only three years old, he had already run forty-three races, far more than most horses contest in their entire careers.

11 The next year, Mohammed entered the famed race between Capri and Naples, a contest that attracted the best swimmers in the world.

12 Each clan was bound by an ironclad legal agreement stating that if one clan member won the contest, all members would share the prize.

13 Didu talks about winning first prize in a dance contest the summer she was fifteen, and how everyone raved over her feet with their henna designs.

14 The abstruseness of the contest winners’ writing is deceptive.

15 They’d done so well with the missing money at the video game contest, after all.

16 Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.

17 One day, I was walking up Main Street, caught up in my own little contest of tossing a hedge apple into the air and catching it, hoping to count to two hundred catches without dropping.

18 They contest every inch of the ground.

他们争夺每一寸土地.

19 By hiring an army of contract egg hunters, IOI was perverting the entire spirit of the contest.

20 The unfortunate warder did not win the contest, either.

1 辩论

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2 驳斥

rebuttal refute debunk rebut confute

3 竞争

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4 竞选

electioneer run stand

5 争取

enlistment Buck fight dispute woo make a pitch for

6 冲突

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7 争斗

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8 比赛

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9 争辩

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10 反驳

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11 论战

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12 竞赛

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13 参加

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14 争执

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15 争夺

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16 质疑

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17 争论

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18 辩驳

challenge refute controvert dispute polemize

19 抗争

strive contend