to strive for / to vie for / to argue or debate / deficient or lacking (dialect) / how or what (literary)
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Frequency data: Cai & Brysbaert, SUBTLEX-CH (2010), Creative Commons Attribution. The data includes word forms with at least 10 occurrences in an older subtitle sample. It does not provide current frequency or HSK levels. Absence from the sample does not establish that a word is rare. Names, variants and restricted readings identified in the source appear after general-use entries within the same match type.
to fight for / to strive for / to win over
to compete / competition
to contend for hegemony / a power struggle
to quarrel / dispute
to dispute / to disagree / to argue opinionatedly / to wrangle
to fight over / to contest / to vie over
controversy / dispute / to dispute
to struggle / to fight / struggle
a dispute / to wrangle
a struggle / fight / battle
to resist / to make a stand and fight (against)
dispute / controversy / conflict
to work hard for sth / to resolve on improvement / determined not to fall short
controversial
struggle
lit. fight minutes, snatch seconds (idiom) / a race against time / making every second count
(idiom) to compete to be first / to scramble to get ahead / to rush forward for fear of falling behind
to obtain by an effort / to strive to get sth
to fall over each other in their eagerness to ...
competitive strength / competitiveness
competitor
to dispute
to work hard for / to do all one can / to contend strongly
seize every minute and second (idiom) / not a minute to lose / every moment counts
to contend on strong grounds / to argue strongly for what is right
to strive to be among the best / zheng shangyou (card game)
to compete to be first / to contest first place
to win an honor / to strive to win a prize
see 爭先恐後|争先恐后[]
to strive to get sth done while the timing is right
to act with urgency / to buy time
to fight for fame, grab profit (idiom) / scrambling for fame and wealth / only interested in personal gain
to quarrel / to argue / to fight over food
to quarrel endlessly
contending for supreme beauty (esp. of flowers, scenery, painting etc) / vying in beauty and glamor
to strive for favor
competitive / ambitious and aggressive / to desire to beat others
Definitions from CC-CEDICT · 125,326 source records · Release 2026-10-27