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

• Steele beat out four challengers including the incumbent Republican chairman, Mike Duncan, and Steele vowed to bring change to the Republican Party.
  斯蒂尔是击败了包括现任共和党全国委员会主席迈克·邓肯之后胜出的。他誓言要为共和党带来变革。
• 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。
• But it needs challengers too.
  但它也需要挑战者。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Stuttgart, Schalke and Werder Bremen are expected to be the main challengers to Bayern with some oddsmakers tipping a steadily improving Bayer Leverkusen and a rejuvenated Hamburg SV as teams also in contention.
  斯图加特，沙尔克和云达不莱梅被认为是拜仁的主要挑战者，还有一些赔率制定者暗示，稳定改善的勒沃库森和年轻化的汉堡也在竞争中也有机会。
• 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。
• 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。