- 1競爭、爭取（常用vie for）
To vie means to compete strongly with others to get or win something - often used as 'vie for', like vying for attention, a prize, or a position. It suggests real effort and rivalry between the people trying to get the same thing.
From the word’s history
Aphetic form of envy, from Middle English envien, from Old French envier, from Latin invītō.
由 envy 去掉字首而成，經古法文來自拉丁文 invītō。
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
Viename
- 1
A district of Oradea, Bihor County, Romania.
- 2
A river in Vendée department, Pays de la Loire, France.
- 3
A river in Normandy, France, flowing through Orne department and Calvados department.
vieverb/vaɪ/
- 1
To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something.
- Near-synonym: oppose
- Her suitors were all vying for her attention.
- 2
archaicTo rival (something), etc.
- But, if there be, or ever were, one such, / It's past the size of dreaming: nature wants stuff / To vie strange forms with fancy; yet, to imagine / An Antony, were nature's piece 'gainst fancy, / Condemning shadows quite.
- 3
To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.
- She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss / She vied so fast.
- Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them.
- 4
To stake; to wager.
- Out, thou camelion harlot! now thine eyes Vie tears with the hyæna
- Nature wants stuff To vie strange forms with fancy
- 5
To stake a sum of money upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See revie.
vienoun/vaɪ/
- 1
obsoleteA contest.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- variable interest entity
- vacuum insulated evaporator
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