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

• 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。
• Chinese executives retort that Western companies are moaning because they are facing for the first time real competition from emerging market challengers.
  中国企业高管反驳称，西方企业之所以抱怨，是因为它们第一次面临来自新兴市场挑战者的真正竞争。
• 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。
• 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。
• The battle between the two main challengers has been dominated by niggling personal issues and trivial disputes.
  这两位竞争对手之间的战争主要围绕琐碎的个人小事和争议展开。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。