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

• Apple and Samsung are now contending to claim the title of biggest spender.
  苹果（Apple）和三星（Samsung）都争相声称自己是半导体支出最高的公司。
• They had now attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the midst of the darkness and the lights, a goddess and a giant contending.
  现在它们有了巨大的身材；他仿佛看见在他自己心里，在我们先前提到的那种广漠辽阔的天地里，在黑暗和微光中，有一个女神和一个女魔，正在酣战。
• He has been contending with difficulties.
  他一直在与困难抗争。
• We also determined the paging per second by looking at the number of applications and processes contending for the memory allocated for paging.
  我们还通过找出与分页争用内存的应用程序和进程的数量来确定每秒内存分页。
• 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。
• He's contending against someone with twice his experience.
  他在和经验比他丰富一倍的人竞争。
• How many teams are contending for the cup this year?
  今年有多少个队来参加争夺奖杯赛？
• After Japan attacked Burma, Burma became a strategic area essential for contending.
  日本南进后，缅甸成为战略必争之地。
• Any move away from the peg would have significant implications when insurers are already contending with low yields.
  在保险公司已在疲于应对低收益率之际，任何偏离盯住美元的联系汇率制度的举措都将产生重大影响。
• 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”。