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  *爭* | 爭* | *爭
to strive for / to vie for / to argue or debate / deficient or lacking (dialect) / how or what (literary)
HSK 3
to fight for / to strive for / to win over
HSK 3
war; conflict / CL: 場|场,
HSK 4
controversy / dispute / to dispute
HSK 5
to argue / to debate / to contend / argument / contention / controversy / debate / CL: , 場|场
HSK 4
to compete / competition
HSK 5
to work hard for / to do all one can / to contend strongly
HSK 7-9
First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
a struggle / fight / battle
HSK 6
war crime
to fight over / to scramble for
lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom); a race against time / making every second count
HSK 7-9
(China's) War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945)
Korean War (1950-1953)
to fight over / to contest / to vie over
HSK 6
to dispute / to disagree / to argue opinionatedly / to wrangle
HSK 7-9
to resist / to make a stand and fight (against)
HSK 7-9
striving to be first and fearing to be last (idiom); outdoing one another
HSK 7-9
Sino-French War (1883-1885) (concerning French seizure of Vietnam)
to strive for favor
scramble for power and profit (idiom); power struggle
market competition
the three Punic Wars (264-146 BC) between Rome and Carthage
lit. when the snipe and the clam grapple with each other, the fisherman catches them both (idiom) / fig. when two sides are locked in dispute, it's often a third party that benefits
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
rival; competitor
unfair competition / illicit competition
Pacific War between Japan and the US, 1941-1945
lit. to argue who is right and wrong (idiom) / fig. to squabble; to argue over minor issues
American War of Independence (1775-1783)
to vie against one another / to fight each other / mutual aggression
war of aggression
competing product; competitor's product
to work hard for sth / to resolve on improvement / determined not to fall short
HSK 7-9
to quarrel / dispute
HSK 7-9
people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign
Sino-Vietnamese War (1979)
power struggle
undeniable; uncontroversial
StarCraft (video game series) (Tw)
to strive for mastery (idiom); aiming for the best result / to have high ambitions
seize every minute and second (idiom); not a minute to lose / every moment counts
competitive / ambitious and aggressive / to desire to beat others
to struggle / to fight / struggle
war on terrorism
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
dispute / controversy / conflict
HSK 7-9
War and Peace by Tolstoy 托爾斯泰|托尔斯泰
lit. you fight, I snatch (idiom); to compete fiercely offering no quarter / fierce rivalry / tug-of-war
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
(idiom) to fight openly and maneuver covertly
succession struggle / dispute over inheritance
to obtain by an effort / to strive to get sth
power struggle
to fall over each other in their eagerness to...
to win an honor / to strive to win a prize
HSK 7-9
fair competition
contending for supreme beauty (esp. of flowers, scenery, painting etc) / vying in beauty and glamor
StarCraft (video game series)
competitive strength / competitiveness
widely known / incontestable / undeniable / to not strive for / to not contend for
the Korean War (started June 25 1950)
(idiom) to seize every minute; to make the best use of one's time
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)
civil war / internal struggle
second Manchu invasion of Korea (1636)
to do (sb) proud; to be a credit to (one's school etc) / to make oneself look good; to build up one's image
internal power struggle
minister not afraid to give forthright criticism
the Yom Kippur war of October 1973 between Israel and her Arab neighbors
class struggle
the Opium Wars of 1840-1842 and 1860-1861
to contend on strong grounds / to argue strongly for what is right
(Persian) Gulf War
competitive
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
to be disappointing / to fail to live up to expectations
uncontroversial / accepted
to fight desperately
to struggle for mastery / to strive for supremacy
war of 1920 between Northern Warlords, in which the Zhili faction beat the Anhui faction and took over the Beijing government
National Protection War or Campaign to Defend the Republic (1915), a rebellion against the installation of Yuan Shikai 袁世凱|袁世凯 as emperor
to argue / to dispute
Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)
controversial
lit. the dragon wars, the tiger battles (idiom); fierce battle between giants
to rival sb for the affection of a man or woman / to be jealous of a rival in a love affair
competition model
Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957
to quarrel endlessly
struggle
to compete / to fight for / to rush to purchase
to contend
the war of 1904-1905 between Russia and Japan
to strive to get sth done while the timing is right
the Crimean War (1853-1856)
to contend for supremacy
to settle a dispute

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