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

• Who do else do you think will be the main challengers?
  您认为谁会是主要的的挑战者？
• 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。
• 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。
• But it needs challengers too.
  但它也需要挑战者。
• Iranian officials say President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad overwhelmingly beat out three challengers, including his nearest rival, reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
  伊朗官员说，总统艾哈迈迪内贾德以压倒优势击败三名挑战者，包括最接近的对手、改革派候选人穆萨维。
• The Chinese rulers often provided military protection to their Korean allies and occasionally punished Korean provocateurs and challengers by force of arms.
  古中国的统治者通常对其韩人盟友提供军事保护，并且有时也会以武力惩罚韩人中的破坏分子和挑战者。
• His closest rival among a long list of challengers, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, has34 percent.
  在众多候选人中与他最接近的竞争对手、前外交部长阿卜杜拉获得了34%的选票。
• 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。
• Previous challengers to postwar American supremacy Japan and the Soviet Union eventually fell by the wayside.
  战后美国霸权的昔日挑战者日本和苏联都以失败告终。