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

• Despite Tottenham's continued improvement, Ferguson believes United's closest challengers will come only from the usual suspects.
  虽然热刺一直在进步，但爵爷相信曼联最大的竞争者还是老面孔。
• 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。
• 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。
• For the likes of Nokia it meant taking on China-based challengers by increasing the rate of product development and outsourcing some manufacturing.
  对诺基亚（nokia）这样的企业来说，这意味着通过提高产品开发速度、外包部分制造流程，来迎战中国的挑战者。
• But it needs challengers too.
  但它也需要挑战者。
• This rule occasionally induced rival challengers to engage in frantic "races to the courthouse," each hoping that the case would be heard by a court of appeals that it thought would favor its interests.
  这一规律偶尔诱使那些敌对的挑战者卷入疯狂的“法庭竞赛”之中，每个人都希望案子能够由他认为对其有利的上诉法院来审理。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• It's a sign to people that matter: major players and challengers to Kim Jong-il, says Daniel Pinkston, north-east Asia deputy project director at International Crisis Group.
  国际危机集团（InternationalCrisisGroup）东北亚地区项目副主管丹尼尔品克斯顿（DanielPinkston）表示：这是给那些紧要人士的一种信号：那些举足轻重的人以及金正日的挑战者。