“rivalrous”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

rivalrous

释义

rivalrous, a.|ˈraɪvəlrəs|
[f. next + -ous.]
1. Of the nature of rivalry.
1812W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XXXIV. 415 These would tend to independency, to rivalrous competition.1853G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 45 Celebrated..for their rivalrous animosity in lecture-room.
2. Given to rivalry; acting as a rival. orig. U.S.
1920in Webster.1961F. H. Allport in Webster, s.v., Ascendant, expansive, and rivalrous students.1963Observer 21 Apr. 29/4 In the three- to six-year-old stage boys become rivalrous with their fathers, girls with their mothers.1965Amer. N. & Q. Sept. 14/2 A rivalrous and divided Italy had little more to offer.1972M. Mead Blackberry Winter (1973) vi. 70 Sisters, while they are growing up, tend to be very rivalrous and as young mothers they are given to continual rivalrous comparisons of their several children.1980N.Y. Times 28 Oct. c1/1 Even geographical separation cannot sever their closeness or quell their rivalrous strivings.

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