challengers

英 [ˈtʃælɪndʒəz]

美 [ˈtʃæləndʒərz]

n. (体育运动或政治的)挑战者
challenger的复数

柯林斯词典

N-COUNT (职位或头衔的)挑战者
Achallengeris someone who competes with you for a position or title that you already have, for example being a sports champion or a political leader.
1. Draskovic has emerged as the strongest challenger to the leader of the Serbian government...
  德拉什科维奇一跃成为塞尔维亚政府领导人最大的挑战者。
2. The One Australia syndicate is to become the sixth challenger for the 1995 Americas Cup.
  名为“澳洲一号”的船队将成为争夺1995年美洲杯的第6个挑战者。

双语例句

Even though all the votes have yet to be counted in Afghanistan, the top challengers in presidential race both see victory.
尽管所有的选票尚未在阿富汗被统计，然而在总统竞选中的顶尖挑战者们都已经看到了胜利。
President Obama, whose administration said it would not defend Section 3 of DOMA, because it believed the provision was unconstitutional, called Windsor and the challengers of Prop. 8 to congratulate them.
总统奥巴马内阁称不会支持《婚姻保护法》的第三部分，因为他们认为这个条款是违反宪法的，并给温莎和8号提案的反对者致电祝贺。
It also therefore slightly strengthens the challenge those community operating systems can make to Red Hat and Novell, which are more direct commercial challengers to Windows.
这也加强了这些社区操作系统挑战RedHat与Novell的能力，而后者对于Windows来说是更加直接的挑战者。
'China's team will definitely be really strong,' says Ms. Tie, who has twice competed in the Olympics and is seen as one of mainland China's stronger challengers this year.
她说：中国队肯定是非常强的，但我会尽力。帖雅娜参加过两次奥运会，被视为今年中国大陆选手的有力挑战者之一。
Iranian officials say President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad overwhelmingly beat out three challengers, including his nearest rival, reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
伊朗官员说，总统艾哈迈迪内贾德以压倒优势击败三名挑战者，包括最接近的对手、改革派候选人穆萨维。
The Chinese star is expected to compete against one of his toughest challengers, Dayron Robles, in the60-meter hurdles.
这位中国田径之星期望能够在60米跨栏和他的最大竞争对手罗伯斯一较高下。
Chinese executives retort that Western companies are moaning because they are facing for the first time real competition from emerging market challengers.
中国企业高管反驳称，西方企业之所以抱怨，是因为它们第一次面临来自新兴市场挑战者的真正竞争。
That victory put the Ukrainians beyond the reach of their nearest challengers, Dynamo Moscow.
本场胜利使乌克兰人甩开了最强有力的对手，莫斯科迪那摩队。
Despite Tottenham's continued improvement, Ferguson believes United's closest challengers will come only from the usual suspects.
虽然热刺一直在进步，但爵爷相信曼联最大的竞争者还是老面孔。
Companies such as Apple and Google have also presented themselves as challengers to the establishment, but they have struggled to sustain that image as they have grown.
苹果（Apple）和谷歌（Google）等公司也一直把自己描绘为既得利益的挑战者，但随着它们一步步发展壮大，它们将很难保持这一形象。