rivalry

【英英釋義】

n. rivalry is competition for fighting between people, business, or organizations who are in the same area or want the same things. 可變名詞 ? 競爭，敵對

competition for the same objective or superiority in the same field

【詞義深度解析】

rivalry多做不可數(shù)名詞，意思是“競爭”，可以同義替換competition。之前學(xué)過rival，做動(dòng)詞表示“能與…媲美，匹敵”的用法。

【例句學(xué)習(xí)】

1. There has been increasing rivalry between China and the US in military, economy, and technology.

2. Many Internet companies are engaed in the rivalry over who has the largest number of daily active users.

3. The brutal rivalry enables you to constantly gauge and calibrate your decision.

gauge /ɡe?d?/ v. （用儀器）測量，判斷/審視（judge/consider） n. 測量儀器，（判斷、評價(jià)）標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，軌距

calibrate?/?k?l??bre?t/ v.校準(zhǔn) （adjust to measure accurately）

4. The growing strategic rivalry between the two superpowers is putting pressure on American business and investors in two ways. During the cold war business was largely untroubled by superpower rivalry because the Soviet Union was an unwelcoming, closed economy. 這兩個(gè)超級大國之間日益增長的戰(zhàn)略競爭正從兩個(gè)方面給美國企業(yè)和投資者帶來壓力。在冷戰(zhàn)期間，由于蘇聯(lián)是一個(gè)不受歡迎的封閉經(jīng)濟(jì)體，企業(yè)界基本上沒有受到超級大國競爭的困擾。

【詞匯運(yùn)用】

1.翻譯：手機(jī)廠商之間激烈的競爭使得智能手機(jī)越來越便宜了。

Fierce/sever rivalry among cell phone manufacturers makes the price of smartphone become cheaper and cheaper. （自己）

The intense rivalry among smartphone makers has brought down the prices of gadgets. / Thanks to the bitter rivalry among smartphone makers, smartphones have become cheaper. （參考翻譯）

分析：激烈的競爭，fierce/sever/intense/bitter rivalry/competition

gadget?/?ɡ?d??t/ n. a?gadget?is a small machine or device which does something useful. 小器械 (有時(shí)暗指復(fù)雜、不必要的東西) 這里用得不太準(zhǔn)確，手機(jī)可以說是很必要的了。

2.生活場景應(yīng)用

其他候選人都很有實(shí)力，這次晉升部門經(jīng)理的競爭很激烈。

The rivalry for promotion to department manager this time will be fierce becasue the other candidates also have capacities/abilities to manage a department.