challengers

英 [ˈtʃælɪndʒəz]

美 [ˈtʃæləndʒərz]

n.  (体育运动或政治的)挑战者
challenger的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT (职位或头衔的)挑战者
  Achallengeris someone who competes with you for a position or title that you already have, for example being a sports champion or a political leader.
  1. Draskovic has emerged as the strongest challenger to the leader of the Serbian government...
     德拉什科维奇一跃成为塞尔维亚政府领导人最大的挑战者。
  2. The One Australia syndicate is to become the sixth challenger for the 1995 Americas Cup.
     名为“澳洲一号”的船队将成为争夺1995年美洲杯的第6个挑战者。

双语例句

• 'China's team will definitely be really strong,' says Ms. Tie, who has twice competed in the Olympics and is seen as one of mainland China's stronger challengers this year.
  她说：中国队肯定是非常强的，但我会尽力。帖雅娜参加过两次奥运会，被视为今年中国大陆选手的有力挑战者之一。
• We look at City and Chelsea as the main challengers and, if we finish above those two, we'll hopefully win the league.
  我们关注曼城和切尔西，因为他们是主要的挑战者。如果我们比他们排位高就很可能拿到冠军。
• His two main challengers withdrew before the elections began, claiming that the process had already been rigged.
  他的两个主要挑战在选举开始前退出，声称这一进程已经被抬高。
• It also therefore slightly strengthens the challenge those community operating systems can make to Red Hat and Novell, which are more direct commercial challengers to Windows.
  这也加强了这些社区操作系统挑战RedHat与Novell的能力，而后者对于Windows来说是更加直接的挑战者。
• Despite Tottenham's continued improvement, Ferguson believes United's closest challengers will come only from the usual suspects.
  虽然热刺一直在进步，但爵爷相信曼联最大的竞争者还是老面孔。
• As the fortunes of his various potential challengers have waxed and waned, Mr Romney has maintained a statesmanlike indifference.
  不管他的各种挑战者的地位上升下降，罗姆尼保持了一种政治家的冷漠。
• Chinese executives retort that Western companies are moaning because they are facing for the first time real competition from emerging market challengers.
  中国企业高管反驳称，西方企业之所以抱怨，是因为它们第一次面临来自新兴市场挑战者的真正竞争。
• When you meet challengers and obstacles, you have the resourcefulness and discipline to bear down and focus on these challenges.
  当你遇到挑战和障碍的时候，你会以耐力和责任感来承受，并集中精力来解决这些困难。
• President Obama, whose administration said it would not defend Section 3 of DOMA, because it believed the provision was unconstitutional, called Windsor and the challengers of Prop. 8 to congratulate them.
  总统奥巴马内阁称不会支持《婚姻保护法》的第三部分，因为他们认为这个条款是违反宪法的，并给温莎和8号提案的反对者致电祝贺。
• Armed ethnic groups are influential in their territories, and ethnic parties could be main challengers to the junta's USDP in the poll.
  武装族裔团体在其领土有支配影响，少数民族党派作为主要挑战者竞争军政府的联邦巩固与发展党。