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

• That victory put the Ukrainians beyond the reach of their nearest challengers, Dynamo Moscow.
  本场胜利使乌克兰人甩开了最强有力的对手，莫斯科迪那摩队。
• He may not have seen off the challengers for the leadership of the party, but he has at least silenced them for a while.
  能没有彻底击败该党派领导权的挑战者，但是他至少让他们沉默了一阵子。
• It's a sign to people that matter: major players and challengers to Kim Jong-il, says Daniel Pinkston, north-east Asia deputy project director at International Crisis Group.
  国际危机集团（InternationalCrisisGroup）东北亚地区项目副主管丹尼尔品克斯顿（DanielPinkston）表示：这是给那些紧要人士的一种信号：那些举足轻重的人以及金正日的挑战者。
• '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。
• But it needs challengers too.
  但它也需要挑战者。
• Companies such as Apple and Google have also presented themselves as challengers to the establishment, but they have struggled to sustain that image as they have grown.
  苹果（Apple）和谷歌（Google）等公司也一直把自己描绘为既得利益的挑战者，但随着它们一步步发展壮大，它们将很难保持这一形象。
• This rule occasionally induced rival challengers to engage in frantic "races to the courthouse," each hoping that the case would be heard by a court of appeals that it thought would favor its interests.
  这一规律偶尔诱使那些敌对的挑战者卷入疯狂的“法庭竞赛”之中，每个人都希望案子能够由他认为对其有利的上诉法院来审理。
• But these four are under pressure from new entrants and fast-emerging challengers.
  不过，这四位领跑者已感受到了新上榜者和快速崛起的挑战者的压力。
• Even though all the votes have yet to be counted in Afghanistan, the top challengers in presidential race both see victory.
  尽管所有的选票尚未在阿富汗被统计，然而在总统竞选中的顶尖挑战者们都已经看到了胜利。
• 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。