rival

n. 对手；竞争者

vt. 与…竞争；比得上某人

vi. 竞争

adj. 竞争的

n. (Rival)人名；(英、法、西)里瓦尔

n.

对手；竞争者；

vt.

与…竞争；比得上某人；

vi.

竞争；

adj.

竞争的；

变形

复数：rivals过去式：rivalled过去分词：rivalled现在分词：rivalling第三人称单数：rivals

双语释义

[C]竞争对手 person or sth competing with another

vt. 与…竞争,与…匹敌 seem or be as good as sb/sth; be comparable to sb/sth

英英释义

rival[ 'raivəl ]

n.the contestant you hope to defeat

"he had respect for his rivals"

同义词：challengercompetitorcompetitioncontender

v.

be equal to in quality or ability

"Nothing can rival cotton for durability"

同义词：equaltouchmatch

be the rival of, be in competition with

"we are rivaling for first place in the race"

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)

动词+～

defeat one's rival击败对手

encounter a rival遇到一个对手

形容词+～

fallen rival被打败的竞争对手

powerful rival强敌

～+名词

rival firm竞争公司

介词+～

without a rival无可匹敌的

～+介词

rival for对…的竞争对手

a rival in love情敌

用作动词 (v.)

～+介词

rival for为…竞争

rival each other in popularity互比声望高低

词组短语

rival firms竞争公司；竞争商行

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“相称，比得上，与……相比”的意思，其区别是：

rival指某人或某物在和对手竞争中，在能力、质量等方面都能与之相匹敌，都能比得上。

equal指在数量、价值或程度等方面已完全相等。

match指对手之间力量、强度、性能或利益等的较量或竞争。

这组词都有“对手，敌手”的意思，其区别是：

enemy多指充满敌意的仇敌。

opponent最常用词，通常指在争论、辩论、竞选或竞赛以及其它各种矛盾冲突中站在对立面的“对手”或“敌手”。

rival指与某人目标一致而想赶上或超过他的人，匹敌者。

foe语气较强，多用于书面文字和诗歌中。指不仅敌对，而且很危险，怀有很深的敌意。

competitor指为同一目标或目的竞争者，一般无感情色彩。

这组词都有“竞争”的意思，其区别是：

contend指为战胜或击败对手进行不懈努力，强调拼搏。也可指口头上进行有对立情绪或严重分歧的争论。

rival指在两方或多方的竞争或比赛中，谁都想战胜或比得上对手。

contest指为争夺土地、阵地、权力或荣誉等而展开的竞争。

compete普通用词，含义广泛。既可指体育活动等活动中争取优胜的相互竞争，也可指为了自己的利益与他人竞争。

rival vt. vi. 比得上，堪与…..竞争；

compete vi （with/in）与……竞争

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

He is hound out of his job by jealous rival.
他受到忌妒他的竞争者的算计而被迫离职。

The party leader has been supplanted by his rival.
那位政党领导已被他的对手取而代之了。

用作形容词(adj.)

He was utterly unscrupulous in his competition with rival firms.
他与对立公司竞争完全不讲道德。

用作动词(v.)

Ships can't rival aircraft for speed.
轮船在速度方面无法与飞机匹敌。

The poet Homer believed that no mortal could rival Zeus.
诗人荷马认为没有凡人能 与宙斯匹敌.

权威例句

rival

rival: [16] A rival is etymologically ‘someone who uses the same stream as another’. The word comes from Latin rīvālis, a noun use of an adjective meaning ‘of a stream’, derived from rīvus ‘stream’ (source of English derive). People who use or live by the same stream are neighbours and hence, human nature being as it is, are usually in competition with each other – hence rival.=> derive

rival (n.)

1570s, from Latin rivalis "a rival, adversary in love; neighbor," originally, "of the same brook," from rivus "brook" (see rivulet). "One who is in pursuit of the same object as another." The sense evolution seems to be based on the competitiveness of neighbors: "one who uses the same stream," or "one on the opposite side of the stream" A secondary sense in Latin and sometimes in English was "associate, companion in duty," from the notion of "one having a common right or privilege with another." As an adjective 1580s from the noun.

rival (v.)

c. 1600, from rival (n.). Related: Rivaled; rivaling.

1. He prayed down his rival.

他以祈祷来降伏了对手。

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2. He lost out to his rival.

他输给了自己的对手。

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3. He made several nasty insinuations about his rival.

他几度对他的对手进行恶意的隐射。

4. The boxer whaled his rival 3 to 0.

拳击手以3比0击败了对手。

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5. You are to be given one method of communication with your rival, albeit indirect communication.

你得到了一种和你的对手交流的方法，尽管只是一种间接交流。

6. “We have beaten them in every aspect of the game, ” he said of rival gene hunters at American and British universities.

“我们已经在各个方面击败了他们，”他说到的对手是美国和英国的大学里的基因捕手。

7. As for India, it never likes to be too far behind its Asian rival.

而对于印度，无论何事它都不回落后于这个亚洲对手太多。

8. In any case, with the information I provided in my first Soapbox article, you should be armed with enough knowledge about SOAP and RPC to compare it to its primary rival in programming today, RMI.

在任何情况下，有了我在第一篇临时讲台文章中提供的信息，您应该拥有了足够的SOAP和RPC知识，可以与今天编程中它的主要对手RMI做比较。

9. He read the last paragraph of “The Theologians” aloud, a passage in which a character goes to heaven, only to realize that his rival is, metaphorically, his other half.

他大声朗读了《神学家们》的最后一段，这段的大意是，其中一个故事人物上了天堂，才发现他在尘世的对手是他的另一半的化身。

10. In the first of 20 trials, both you and your rival shut your gates, forcing both trucks onto the alternative route.

在20次试验的第一次中，你和你的对手都关闭自己的大门，迫使两方的卡车都绕道而行。

11. Is it a rival?

它是一个对手？

12. If Google can do something to rival that, it would be very interesting and exciting.

如果谷歌能想法子在这个方面与它们竞争，那就有精彩好戏看了。

13. As she worked at her restaurant, an assailant threw acid in her face on behalf of a jealous rival.

当她正在她的餐馆工作时，一个嫉妒的竞争者把一瓶酸仍到了她的脸上。

14. As we hope to show, the conflict in existence between the National-Socialist "Right" and the "Left" in Germany is the kind of conflict that will always arise between rival socialist factions.

就像我们希望表明的那样，在德国存在于国家社会主义“右”与“左”之间的冲突，是那种总会发生于竞争的社会主义派别之间的分歧。

15. The rival’s arrival gives him a forgivable chance.

对手的到来给他一个可原谅的机会。

16. But in practice, Chiang Kaishek’sgovernment was still at war through most of the following years: with theCommunists, with rival militarists, and then with the Japanese.

但事实上，在接下来的大多数年份里，蒋介石政府都在打仗：和共产党打，与对手军阀打，然后是与日本人打。

17. But in practice, Chiang Kaishek’sgovernment was still at war through most of the following years: with theCommunists, with rival militarists, and then with the Japanese.

但事实上，在接下来的大多数年份里，蒋介石政府都在打仗：和共产党打，与对手军阀打，然后是与日本人打。