vied

英 [vaɪd]

美 [vaɪd]

v.  激烈竞争; 争夺
vie的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• V-RECIP 竞争;争夺
  If one person or thingis vying withanother for something, the people or things are competing for it.
  1. California is vying with other states to capture a piece of the growing communications market...
     为了在日渐扩大的通讯市场分得一杯羹，加利福尼亚正在和其他州展开竞争。
  2. Four rescue plans are vying to save the zoo...
     4个拯救动物园的方案正争得不可开交。
  3. In hospitals, business plans vie with patients for doctors' attention...
     在医院，经营方针和病人都是医生所要关心的。
  4. The two are vying for the support of New York voters.
     两人在争夺纽约选民的支持。

双语例句

• At the Franklin sale, guests vied for a memento of their favourite hotel.
  在弗兰克林酒店拍卖处，客人们争先恐后地购买酒店的纪念品。
• The cold-war superpowers vied for influence too; Egypt flirted with both, but America bid higher and won.
  冷战时期的超级大国为扩大在这个地区的影响而进行了激烈的竞争，而埃及则脚踏两只船，待价而沽。美国人出价更高并最终赢得了这场影响力之争。
• In this game, two programmers would unleash software organisms and watch as they vied for control of the computer.
  在该游戏中，两个程序员分别释放软件生物体，然后看着它们为控制计算机而竞争。
• Hackers vied to jailbreak the iPhone, running new apps on it despite Apple's desire to keep it closed.
  黑客们竞相破解iPhone，并在上面运行新的应用程序，尽管苹果公司渴望保持iPhone的封闭性。
• Great companies vied with one another in fruitless litigation and expensive competition.
  大公司彼此争斗不息，纠缠于徒劳无功的诉讼和代价高昂的竞争。
• When the city of Athens was first built by a Phoenician, both Poseidon and Athena vied for the honour of naming it.
  当雅典城刚由腓尼基人建立起来时，波塞冬和雅典娜都争着为这座城市命名。
• An Asian space race has developed 30 years after Russia and the US vied for space supremacy.
  美苏两国太空争霸之后，亚洲国家的太空竞赛已经发展了30年。
• They all vied in paying her attentions.
  他们向她争献殷勤。
• All present vied to express their interest in the project.
  在场的人都争先恐后地表明自己对这个项目的兴趣。
• While other artists vied for the prime sites, he chose a dead corner.
  当其他艺术家争抢主要场地时，他选了一个死角。