challenger

noun

1. （体育运动或政治的）挑战者
   a person who competes with sb else in sport or in politics for an important position that the other person already holds
   1. the official challenger for the world championship title
      世界冠军头衔的正式挑战者

1. N-COUNT (职位或头衔的)挑战者
   A challenger is 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。

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 Frenchman held his own against the challenger.
   这名法国人顶住了挑战者的进攻。
3. Determining how the Democratic challenger would conduct his presidency isn't quite so obvious.
   这位民主党挑战者将如何履行总统职务还不能明确判断。
4. This could be the winning game for the challenger, who only needs two more points for the championship.
   这场比赛可能是挑战者获胜，他只要再得两分就得冠军了。
5. The judges gave the nod to the winning challenger.
   裁判们对挑战者的胜利给予确认。
6. But this is a challenger they've never seen.
   但这是一个它们从未见过的挑战者。
7. You have helped us kick-off the general election on the strongest footing of any presidential challenger ever.
   你们帮助我们在大选初期，就在所有总统候选人中占据了最强有力的地位。
8. The champion is faced with a feisty challenger.
   冠军面临着一个勇敢的挑战者。
9. This is what we are commemorating the "Challenger" on the best way to the seven heroes.
   这正是我们纪念“挑战者”号上七位英雄的最好方式。
10. Nancy and I are pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle Challenger.
    南希和我为挑战者号航天飞机的悲剧感到至为痛心。
11. This picture of course you recall from the space shuttle Challenger when it failed.
    看到这张照片大家当然想起了，挑战号飞船的失败。
12. Sir Richard has been playing the challenger for a long time.
    理查德爵士已经扮演了很久的挑战者角色。
13. AS a result of the Challenger experience, my life changed forever.
    由于参与挑战者的经历，我的生活永远的改变了。
14. Bombardier became a huge company, with activities in aerospace and transportation, with subsidiaries like Challenger and Global.
    庞巴迪公司是一个巨大的公司，在航空航天活动和交通运输，喜欢与子公司和全球挑战者。
15. This would instantly create potential new challenger banks in Britain.
    这将在英国银行业内马上打造出新的挑战者。
16. A titanic explosion consumed Challenger and its crew of seven.
    巨大的爆炸毁灭了挑战者号和它的七名乘务员。
17. If the challenger wins, he will become the new world heavyweight champion.
    如果挑战者获胜，他将成为新的重量级世界冠军。
18. The world champion was dethroned last night by a young challenger.
    世界冠军昨晚被一个年轻的挑战者打败了。
19. While Xie has a strong lock on the title of world's longest hair, there is a challenger.
    虽然谢了一份关于世界上最长的头发冠军有力的锁，有一个挑战者。
20. He was once a challenger to mitterrand's leadership.
    他曾一度是密特朗的领导地位的挑战者。
21. Some of the challenger companies have already achieved great success.
    一些具有挑战能力的公司已经取得了巨大的成功。
22. This refusal of Mayer Snyder to agree to debate his challenger.
    snyder市长拒绝了对手的辩论要求。
23. Since she got to the top, she has carefully removed every potential challenger from office.
    自从登上权力顶峰，她小心地罢黜了每一个潜在的挑战者。
24. Ah. I? Ve waitting for a new challenger!
    啊，我正等待着一个新的挑战者！
25. The Challenger was named for a British naval research ship that explored the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
    而挑战者号航天飞机则是根据一艘在大西洋和太平洋探险的英国海军研究船只命名的。
26. A fight was scheduled between the world boxing champion and the challenger.
    世界拳击冠军和挑战者之间将有一橙赛。
27. It would seem that the defending champion has met her match in the new challenger.
    卫冕者似乎遇到了实力相当的挑战者。
28. Both challenger and champion are in the ring.
    挑战者和卫冕冠军都已进入拳台。
29. You send me to meet my challenger, whatever it may be.
    你送我去见我的对手，不管它是个什么模样。

noun

1. the contestant you hope to defeat
   1. he had respect for his rivals
   2. he wanted to know what the competition was doing

   Synonym:    rivalcompetitorcompetitioncontender