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

• He also paid tribute to fellow-Democratic contender Hillary Clinton, who vied to become America's first woman president.
  奥巴马还赞扬了他的竞争对手希拉里.克林顿。克林顿一直在争取成为美国第一任女总统。
• Actually, he enjoyed being vied over by anyone.
  实际上，谁获胜他都高兴。
• 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。
• Kings and presidents-for-life vied for American favour.
  各国的国王与终身总统们争相邀宠于美国。
• 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。
• 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。
• Artists vied for the prime sites to paint.
  画家们争抢最好的绘画地点。
• Stillborn state-run projects aside, in the sunshine era a few bold companies from the South vied with China to do business in North Korea.
  除流产的国有项目之外，在阳光政策时期，曾有少数大胆的韩国企业在朝经商、与中国企业竞争。
• People vied with each other in donating blood for the wounded.
  人们争先恐后地为伤员们献血。
• 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。