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to strive for / to vie for / to argue or debate / deficient or lacking (dialect) / how or what (literary)
HSK 3
Marco Polo Bridge Incident of 7th July 1937, regarded as the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争
to dispute / to disagree / to argue opinionatedly / to wrangle
HSK 7-9
to struggle / to fight / struggle
first Manchu invasion of Korea (1627)
to argue / to dispute
to fight for / to strive for / to win over
HSK 3
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
controversy / dispute / to dispute
HSK 5
war of aggression
War and Peace by Tolstoy 托爾斯泰|托尔斯泰
to act with urgency / to buy time
to contend for supremacy
to compete to be first / to contest first place
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
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
rival; competitor
contention
Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam)
struggle
to fall over each other in their eagerness to...
to win an honor / to strive to win a prize
HSK 7-9
scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle
to fight over / to scramble for
unfair competition / illicit competition
civil war / internal struggle
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
war; conflict / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
a dispute / to wrangle
fair competition
to quarrel / dispute
HSK 7-9
power struggle
dispute / controversy / conflict
HSK 7-9
National protection war or Campaign to defend the republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai as emperor
(China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945)
StarCraft (video game series)
to fight for fame, grab profit (idiom); scrambling for fame and wealth / only interested in personal gain
to contend
war of independence
competing product; competitor's product
market competition
to fight over / to contest / to vie over
HSK 6
internal power struggle
to haggle over every ounce (idiom) / to to fuss over minor points / to be particular about sth
to compete / competition
HSK 5
Vietnam War (1955-1975)
competitive strength / competitiveness
to strive for mastery (idiom); aiming for the best result / to have high ambitions
when two kingdoms are at war, they don't execute envoys (idiom)
fight
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
argument / debate / controversy
lit. if two tigers fight, one will get injured (idiom) / fig. if you start a war, someone is bound to get hurt
people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
direct competitor / direct competition
striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another
HSK 7-9
American War of Independence (1775-1783)
to do (sb) proud; to be a credit to (one's school etc) / to make oneself look good; to build up one's image
competition model
widely known / incontestable / undeniable / to not strive for / to not contend for
controversial
to strive
war on terrorism
Lugou Bridge or Marco Polo Bridge in southwest of Beijing, the scene of a conflict that marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War 抗日戰爭|抗日战争
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
abbr. for 朝鮮戰爭|朝鲜战争, Korean War (1950-1953)
undeniable; uncontroversial
to work hard for sth / to resolve on improvement / determined not to fall short
HSK 7-9
to rival sb for the affection of a man or woman / to be jealous of a rival in a love affair
a struggle / fight / battle
HSK 6
Korean War (1950-1953)
seize every minute and second (idiom); not a minute to lose / every moment counts
to be disappointing / to fail to live up to expectations
not to be crushed (idiom) / to be determined to have one's revenge
(idiom) to stand aloof from worldly affairs
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
(idiom) to seize every minute; to make the best use of one's time
(Persian) Gulf War
lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants
to resist / to make a stand and fight (against)
HSK 7-9
StarCraft (video game series) (Tw)
Tolstoy (name) / Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828-1910), great Russian novelist, author of War and Peace 戰爭與和平|战争与和平
power struggle
to quarrel endlessly
to argue / to debate / to contend / argument / contention / controversy / debate / CL: , 場|场
HSK 4
to contend for hegemony / a power struggle
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
competitor
to obtain by an effort / to strive to get sth
to refuse to concede / not to give in
(idiom) to fight openly and maneuver covertly
to dispute
to struggle for mastery / to strive for supremacy
lit. you fight, I snatch (idiom); to compete fiercely offering no quarter / fierce rivalry / tug-of-war
to settle a dispute

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