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Picture two names level with each other, both reaching for the same prize: whatever one gains, the other feels. From that levelness English gets two more uses — the other products sitting on the same shelf as yours, and the verb that says something matches another for size or quality without any contest going on at all.

可以想成：兩個名字並排在同一條線上，伸手搶同一個東西——一邊得到什麼，另一邊就感覺得到。從這種「勢均力敵」再往外走，…更多收起可以想成：兩個名字並排在同一條線上，伸手搶同一個東西——一邊得到什麼，另一邊就感覺得到。從這種「勢均力敵」再往外走，英文得到兩個用法：架上跟你放在一起、讓人二選一的同類產品，以及一個動詞——說某樣東西在規模或品質上不輸另一樣，即使根本沒有人在比賽。

From the picture

比得上

動詞把「對手」裡的「不相上下」抽出來用：不是在跟誰競爭，只是說這一樣東西的水準夠得上另一樣。

rival, match someone · verb · B2

To match someone or something else for how good, big, or important it is.

比得上；匹敵

Also in this word

rival, competitor · noun · B1

a person, team, or company that you compete against, because you both want to win or to be the best.

對手

rival, alternative choice · noun · B2

one of the other things of the same kind that people can choose from, when you are comparing them.

同類的選擇；同級的產品

原始詞典資料7 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。

rivalnoun/ˈɹaɪvəl/

  • 1

    A competitor (person, team, company, etc.) with the same goal as another, or striving to attain the same thing. Defeating a rival may be a primary or necessary goal of a competitor.

    • Chris is my biggest rival in the 400-metre race.
    • Every day is like survival / You're my lover, not my rival
  • 2

    Someone or something with similar claims of quality or distinction as another.

    • As a social historian, he has no rival.
  • 3

    obsoleteOne having a common right or privilege with another; a partner.

    • If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, / The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste.

rivaladj/ˈɹaɪvəl/

  • 1

    Having the same pretensions or claims; standing in competition for superiority.

    • rival lovers
    • rival claims or pretensions

rivalverb/ˈɹaɪvəl/

  • 1

    To oppose or compete with.

    • to rival somebody in love
  • 2

    To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another.

    • But the Waverley is still the best-placed station of any British city, and gives the arriving stranger a first impression rivalled in Europe only by the exclusively watery station approach at Venice.
    • The original family who had begun to build a palace to rival Nonesuch had died out before they had put up little more than the gateway, […].
  • 3

    To strive to equal or excel; to emulate.

    • to rival thunder in its rapid course

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。