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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,
HSK 4
to argue / to debate / to contend / argument / contention / controversy / debate / CL: , 場|场
HSK 4
to compete / competition
HSK 5
controversy / dispute / to dispute
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
to quarrel / dispute
HSK 7-9
to win an honor / to strive to win a prize
HSK 7-9
dispute / controversy / conflict
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
to contend for hegemony / a power struggle
to dispute
to strive
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
to fall over each other in their eagerness to...
to strive for favor
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
a dispute / to wrangle
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 struggle / to fight / struggle
(idiom) to fight openly and maneuver covertly
to contend
(idiom) to stand aloof from worldly affairs
(idiom) to seize every minute; to make the best use of one's time
to strive for mastery (idiom); aiming for the best result / to have high ambitions
to compete to be first / to contest first place
to fight over / to scramble for
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
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
argument / debate / controversy
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
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
widely known / incontestable / undeniable / to not strive for / to not contend for
War and Peace by Tolstoy 托爾斯泰|托尔斯泰
class struggle
Korean War (1950-1953)
competitive strength / competitiveness
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
to argue / to dispute
Vietnam War (1955-1975)
the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861
competitor
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
(Persian) Gulf War
Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945
(China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945)
War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝|共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府|国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石|蒋介石
market competition
war crime
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
war of independence
the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 between Israel and her Arab neighbors
war on terrorism
to be disappointing / to fail to live up to expectations
to quarrel endlessly
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)
the Six-Day War of June 1967 between Israel and its Arab neighbors
to dispute / to struggle for mastery
contention
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
war of 1915 against Yuan Shikai and for the Republic
StarCraft (video game series) (Tw)
StarCraft (video game series)
term in TCM describing the progress of disease as an opposition between vital energy 正氣|正气 and pathogeny 邪氣|邪气
minister not afraid to give forthright criticism
controversial
American War of Independence (1775-1783)

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