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to strive for / to vie for / to argue or debate / deficient or lacking (dialect) / how or what (literary)
HSK 3
to fight for / to strive for / to win over
HSK 3
war; conflict / CL: 場|场,
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to argue / to debate / to contend / argument / contention / controversy / debate / CL: , 場|场
HSK 4
controversy / dispute / to dispute
HSK 5
to compete / competition
HSK 5
to fight over / to contest / to vie over
HSK 6
a struggle / fight / battle
HSK 6
to dispute / to disagree / to argue opinionatedly / to wrangle
HSK 7-9
dispute / controversy / conflict
HSK 7-9
to quarrel / dispute
HSK 7-9
to win an honor / to strive to win a prize
HSK 7-9
striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another
HSK 7-9
to resist / to make a stand and fight (against)
HSK 7-9
lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time / making every second count
HSK 7-9
to work hard for / to do all one can / to contend strongly
HSK 7-9
to work hard for sth / to resolve on improvement / determined not to fall short
HSK 7-9
(idiom) to fight openly and maneuver covertly
to contend for hegemony / a power struggle
to dispute
a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC
to vie against one another / to fight each other / mutual aggression
(idiom) to seize every minute; to make the best use of one's time
to fall over each other in their eagerness to...
to struggle / to fight / struggle
to strive for favor
to fight over / to scramble for
a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956
lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants
Lugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge in southwest of Beijing, the scene of a conflict that marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争
to obtain by an effort / to strive to get sth
to rival sb for the affection of a man or woman / to be jealous of a rival in a love affair
to contend for supremacy
to contend
(idiom) to stand aloof from worldly affairs
to strive for mastery (idiom); aiming for the best result / to have high ambitions
argument / debate / controversy
to compete to be first / to contest first place
competitive / ambitious and aggressive / to desire to beat others
to contend on strong grounds / to argue strongly for what is right
to struggle for mastery / to strive for supremacy
to strive
lit. when the snipe and the clam grapple with each other, the fisherman catches them both (idiom) / fig. when two sides are locked in dispute, it's often a third party that benefits
fight
seize every minute and second (idiom); not a minute to lose / every moment counts
scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle
a dispute / to wrangle
anti-rightist / abbr. for 反右派鬥爭|反右派斗争
lit. you fight, I snatch (idiom); to compete fiercely offering no quarter / fierce rivalry / tug-of-war
to fight for fame, grab profit (idiom); scrambling for fame and wealth / only interested in personal gain
Tolstoy (name) / Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
to fight desperately
to compete / to fight for / to rush to purchase
lit. to argue who is right and wrong (idiom) / fig. to squabble; to argue over minor issues
to refuse to concede / not to give in
Xiao He (-193 BC), famous strategist and chancellor, fought on Liu Bang's 劉邦|刘邦 side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争
widely known / incontestable / undeniable / to not strive for / to not contend for
competitive strength / competitiveness
Cao Can (-190 BC), second chancellor of Han Dynasty, contributed to its founding by fighting on Liu Bang's 劉邦|刘邦 side during the Chu-Han Contention 楚漢戰爭|楚汉战争 / also pr. [Cao2 Shen1]
to argue / to dispute
Vietnam War (1955-1975)
the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861
competitor
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
market competition
Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945
(China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945)
struggle
rival; competitor
the war of 1904-1905 between Russia and Japan
Chu-Han Contention (206-202 BC), power struggle between Liu Bang 劉邦|刘邦 of Han and Xiang Yu 項羽|项羽 of Chu
competitive
unfair competition / illicit competition
the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 between Israel and her Arab neighbors
war on terrorism
civil war / internal struggle
lit. two tigers fighting (idiom) / fig. fierce contest between evenly matched adversaries
the three Punic Wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage
war of aggression
when two kingdoms are at war, they don't execute envoys (idiom)
to dispute / to struggle for mastery
War and Peace by Tolstoy 托爾斯泰|托尔斯泰
contention
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government
Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam)
people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
StarCraft (video game series) (Tw)
StarCraft (video game series)
minister not afraid to give forthright criticism
American War of Independence (1775-1783)
lit. the ant fights, the snail contends (idiom); fig. petty squabbling
Treaty of Shimonoseki (1895), concluding the First Sino-Japanese War 甲午戰爭|甲午战争
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争
to be disappointing / to fail to live up to expectations
not to be crushed (idiom) / to be determined to have one's revenge
succession struggle / dispute over inheritance

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