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

• 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。
• The Chinese star is expected to compete against one of his toughest challengers, Dayron Robles, in the60-meter hurdles.
  这位中国田径之星期望能够在60米跨栏和他的最大竞争对手罗伯斯一较高下。
• 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。
• Who do else do you think will be the main challengers?
  您认为谁会是主要的的挑战者？
• 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。
• As the fortunes of his various potential challengers have waxed and waned, Mr Romney has maintained a statesmanlike indifference.
  不管他的各种挑战者的地位上升下降，罗姆尼保持了一种政治家的冷漠。
• But it needs challengers too.
  但它也需要挑战者。
• It also therefore slightly strengthens the challenge those community operating systems can make to Red Hat and Novell, which are more direct commercial challengers to Windows.
  这也加强了这些社区操作系统挑战RedHat与Novell的能力，而后者对于Windows来说是更加直接的挑战者。
• We look at City and Chelsea as the main challengers and, if we finish above those two, we'll hopefully win the league.
  我们关注曼城和切尔西，因为他们是主要的挑战者。如果我们比他们排位高就很可能拿到冠军。
• 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。