contender

常见例句

The final possibility is for another contender to emerge.
最后的可能性是其他竞争者的出现.
If he performs well, albeit in defeat, he may yet emerge as a serious opposition leader and—perhaps one day—as a genuine presidential contender.
如果他表现得好，即使输了，做为一名严肃的反对领导者，可能在未来的某一天，会成为真正的总统竞争者。
So their discovery would provide a key piece of experimental evidence for this contender for a Grand Unified Theory meshing general relativity with quantum mechanics.
所以他们的发现将为这些(对抗)结合了相对论和量子力学的大统一理论的竞争者们提供一份关键的实验证据。

But Obame is unlikely to emerge as the leading opposition contender because long-time challenger Pierre Mamboundou remains in the race.
This strikes me as the most plausible contender for an argument like this.
我认为对这论据最好的解释。
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But for our purposes, I think it's not a contender.
但就我们的目标而言,它与我们讨论的话题并不相关
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Japanese contender Yoko Shibui is comforted by the presence of the "very top notch" British police.
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