| 釋義 |
contendvb. strive,quarrel. combat 斗爭，爭執(zhí)，搏斗
△Ham.4.1.7:“Mad as the sea and wind when bothcontend/Which(i.e.as to which) is the mightier.”他瘋得像是大風(fēng)和大浪正在爭斗，看誰更高強(qiáng)。
△Mac.1.3.92.“His wonders and his praises do contend/Whichshould be thine or his.”i.e. His astonishment at yourachievement and his desire to praise you are both sostrong that they fight one another,so that he does notknow which to express to you and which to keep tohimself.So he is silent.他的驚訝和贊嘆交相沖突，竟不知該如何表示，還是僅藏胸中。
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1. strive,combat,fight斗爭，搏斗，戰(zhàn)斗。
△3H.VI.2.5.1: “This battle fares like to the morning’s war./ When dying clouds contend with growing light.”這仗好像是清晨時分正在消散的烏云與正在擴(kuò)展的光亮之間互相爭斗的交戰(zhàn)。
△H.V.1.2.24: “For never two such king-doms did contend / Without much fall of blood，”因為像這樣兩個國家一旦交戰(zhàn)，絕不會不大量流血的。
2.fight with one another互斗。
△3H.VI.2.5.102:“Ifyou contend.a thousand lives must wither.”要是你們再打來打去，成千上萬人的生命就要枯萎了。
3. fight,make war戰(zhàn)斗，作戰(zhàn)。
△Mac.2.4.17:“Con-tending ’gainst obedience,as they would make/Warwith mankind.”不服管束，好像它們要和人類作戰(zhàn)。
4.vie競爭。
△2H.VI.3.2.383: “Why only,Suffolk,mourn I not for thee,/And with the southern cloudscontend in tears. / Theirs for the earth’s increase.mine for my sorrows?”薩福克，我為什么不能單單為你而悲傷，并且與南方帶雨的云比賽灑淚，它們的淚為大地豐收而灑，我的淚為自己的悲哀而灑？
5. set off襯托。
contend against: set off against,compare with,tryto match與…對照，與…比較，試圖匹配。
△Mac.1.6.14:“All our service/In every point twice done,and thendone double,/ Were poor and single business tocontend / Against those honours deep and broadwherewith / Your Majesty loads our house.”我們的一切效勞，即使每一點都加一倍，再翻兩番，比起陛下以尊榮賞賜我家的深恩厚澤，實在微不足道。 contend[k?n?tend]v.競爭，角逐，斗爭，爭論，爭鳴，堅決主張
◇ contend for爭奪
contend with與…作斗爭，抗衡
‖the two contending sides爭論雙方
contender n.斗爭者，競爭者，對手
contention n.爭論，論點，主張，競爭，斗爭
contentious adj.可能引起爭論的，有爭議的
contentiously adv.contentiousness n.爭論，爭議 |