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Picture two names on the same list, both going for the same thing — the same customers, the same finish line, the same prize. A competitor is defined by that shared target: you cannot be one on your own, and the word says nothing about liking or disliking, only about being after the same thing.
可以想成：同一份名單上的兩個名字，兩邊要的是同一樣東西——同一批客人、同一條終點線、同一座獎盃。competitor…更多收起
可以想成：同一份名單上的兩個名字，兩邊要的是同一樣東西——同一批客人、同一條終點線、同一座獎盃。competitor 是被那個「共同目標」定義的：一個人自己構不成 competitor，而這個字本身也不帶喜歡或討厭，只說「你們在爭同一件事」。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
competitornoun/kəmˈpɛt.ɪ.tɚ/
- 1
A person or organization against whom one is competing.
- Hitherto the river had given facilities to Kingston traders which their competitors elsewhere could not possess, but now the railway took the malt from distant towns to the London market at lower rates than the bargemasters.
- 2
A participant in a competition, especially in athletics.
- 3
obsoletePartner, associate, one working with another toward a common goal.
- Ioine with me now in this my meane eſtate, […] And when my name and honor ſhall be ſpread, As far as Boreas claps his braſen wings, Or faire Botëes ſends his cheerefull light. Then ſhalt thou be Competitor with me, And ſit with Tamburlaine in all his maieſtie.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。