Compete

(verb.) compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others.

尤因整理

• A set of animals, with their organisation but little diversified, could hardly compete with a set more perfectly diversified in structure. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• When you have to compete with the rich and influential, it will probably be mentioned to you,' said Miss Lavvy, 'in good time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• But in England water gas could not compete with coal gas in cheapness. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• You've got no money, and you want to compete with those who have. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• German manufacturers are making great efforts to compete in this field, but American machines are generally regarded as the best in the world. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is certain that none of us can compete with thy speed in writing, went on Father Melchior. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I dispatched Colonel Oglesby at once with troops sufficient to compete with the reported number of the enemy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• To all the purposes of politics it is settled, for instance, that the trust will never be unscrambled into small competing businesses. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Graham, it chanced, was at that time greatly preoccupied about some school-prizefor which he was competing. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• When the war over the twine-binder ended there were only twenty-two competing firms left; before that there had been over a hundred. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Jay Gould at that time controlled the Atlantic & Pacific Telegraph Company, and was competing with the Western Union and endeavoring to depress Western Union stock on the Exchange. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There are competing claims to the invention of Centrifugal Pumps in the form now adopted. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• Three other engines competed with the Rocket, two of which had attained great speed on previous trials. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• In one such meeting it is said that forty machines competed. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• It has so cheapened steel that it now competes with iron in price. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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