1·She pipped her rival for the gold medal.
她险胜对手，夺得金牌。
—— 《牛津词典》
2·She has a 12-point lead over her nearest rival.
她领先紧随其后的对手12分。
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3·She has a healthy respect for her rival's talents.
她很有风度地尊重对手的才能。
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4·This year the newspaper has outsold its main rival.
今年该报的发行量已超过了它的主要对手。
—— 《牛津词典》
5·He was indignant that his rival was offered the job.
他对他的对手得到了那份工作感到愤愤不平。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
1·Their smaller rival is battling to end their duopoly.
比他们小的竞争对手正在为结束他们两家寡头集团而斗争。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·His family believe that his murder was engineered by a business rival.
他的家人认为他的死是由一位商业竞争对手一手策划的。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·His insistence on putting users first, and focusing on elegance and simplicity, has become deeply ingrained in his own company, and is spreading to rival firms too.
他坚持用户至上，注重优雅和简洁，这种理念在他自己的公司里已经根深蒂固，且已经传播到竞争对手那去了。
4·With Cuicuilco eliminated as a potential rival, any one of a number of relatively modest towns might have emerged as a leading economic and political power in Central Mexico.
随着 Cuicuilco 作为一个潜在的竞争对手被淘汰，一些相对不太大的城镇中，任何一个都有可能成为墨西哥中部主要的经济和政治力量。
5·Thailand exports almost twice the amount of rice as India, its nearest rival.
泰国出口的大米接近其最近的竞争对手印度的两倍。
1·Their politics consisted of unstable power plays between rival groups.
他们的政治活动包括竞争集团之间的争权夺利。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Bank of America merged with a rival bank.
美国银行和一家竞争银行合并了。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
3·She also called for the creation of a European credit rating agency to rival large, private companies that rate the credit of companies and countries for investors.
她还呼吁创建欧洲信用评级机构，和那些为投资者评定公司和国家信用等级的大型私人评级机构竞争。
4·The advent of digital tools will have an impact on education that will rival that of the printing press, said Ms. Cator.
卡托尔女士说，数字化工具的出现将与印刷出版在对教育产生影响方面相竞争。
5·Bahrain was perceived to be a liberal oasis in the Persian Gulf, with a robust banking sector and a per capita income to rival Europe's.
在波斯湾巴林最终被意识到是一片自由的绿洲，拥有强大的银行部门和可以竞争欧洲的人均收入。
1·Cassette recorders cannot rival the sound quality of CDs.
盒式磁带录音机在音质上无法与CD相媲美。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·You will find scenery to rival anything you can see in the Alps.
你能看到的景色可与你在阿尔卑斯山所见的任何景色相媲美。
—— 《牛津词典》
3·Berlin has music, art and nightlife to rival Europe's more established capitals, but not their high costs and hellish commutes. It is a metropolis with the lazy charm of the countryside.
这里美妙的音乐、艺术和夜生活可以媲美欧洲其他创建完好的首都，但柏林却毫无它们的高消费和折磨人的通勤，她是一个拥有慵懒闲适的乡村气息的大都市。
4·Petroleum experts believe the war-torn country is underexplored and could potentially rival Saudi Arabia in oil reserves.
专家们认为这个饱受战乱的国家尚未得到充分的勘探，其潜在的原油储量或可媲美沙特阿拉伯。
5·In a more pessimistic scenario, the recession would rival that of 1981-82, lasting into late 2009 with unemployment reaching 8-9%.
更悲观一点，本次的衰退能与1981 - 82那次“媲美”，延续到2009年末，失业率到达8% - 9%。
1·The next stage is to increase the energy of the beams to the point where the LHC supersedes its nearest rival, the Tevatron at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago.
下一步是提升粒子流的能量到达一个可以让粒子对撞机取代它最接近的竞争者（毗邻芝加哥的费尔米国家加速实验室的万亿电子伏加速器）的程度。
2·The only thing that might make the Brown family members sell the firm is if Diageo did take control of Jim Beam and became a mighty rival in the American spirits market.
唯有一件事可能让布朗家族成员出售公司，即帝亚吉欧能否控制占边，并且成为(自己在)美国烈性酒市场强有力的竞争者。
3·This was the period when the city of Angkor in present-day Cambodia went into rapid decline, a fact that some historians have blamed on invasions by the rival Siamese and Champa kingdoms.
这是吴哥在现在的柬埔寨快速衰退的一个时期，也是一些历史学家指责竞争者暹罗人和占婆王国入侵的事实。
4·But there is a subtext: despite protestations to the contrary, the new body will be a rival to the Organisation of American States, which includes the United States and Canada, but not Cuba.
但里面有潜台词：尽管申明有别于预期，新组织将成为美洲国家组织(成员包括美国和加拿大，但没有古巴)的竞争者。
5·A better idea would have been to break coal India's quasi-monopoly and let rival firms vie to deliver coal cheaply.
更明智的做法是打破印度煤炭公司的垄断，让竞争者提供更加廉价的煤炭。
1·Britain's largest bookseller, Waterstone's, is to launch a digital e-reader to rival Amazon's Kindle within six months.
英国最大的书店——水石书店要在六个月内发布自己的电子书阅读器以对抗亚马逊Kindle阅读器。
2·As the conscious mind is born, a rival force of the Self Will occurs, which brings about recurring periods of rebellion in Man.
当意识头脑诞生，自我意志的一种对抗力量就出现了，它导致了人类反叛的多个时期。
3·Placebo effects can be clinically meaningful and can rival the effects of active medication in patients with asthma.
在哮喘病人中，安慰剂效应可能具有临床意义，并且可对抗活性药物的效应。