tug-of-war

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  • na.拔河(游戏)；激战
  • Web拔河比赛；激烈竞争；拉锯战
Plural Form：tugs-of-war  

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tug-of-war
n.
1.
拔河a sporting event in which two teams pull at opposite ends of a rope until one team drags the other over a line on the ground
2.
（两人或两组的）激烈争夺a situation in which two people or groups try very hard to get or keep the same thing

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AllAll,拔河拔河,激战激战,拔河比赛拔河比赛,激烈竞争激烈竞争,拉锯战拉锯战
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1.
At the moment we have Jupiter and Saturn on either side of the Sun and creating a tug of war with Earth in the middle.
目前，我们对任何一方造成的太阳与地球的战争中，拖船在木星和土星。
mù qián , wǒ men duì rèn hé yī fāng zào chéng de tài yáng yǔ dì qiú de zhàn zhēng zhōng , tuō chuán zài mù xīng hé tǔ xīng 。
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2.
Greed and fear no longer seem to be playing such a violent game of tug-of-war with markets.
婪和恐惧似乎不再参与和市场进行拔河比赛这样的激烈竞逐。
lán hé kǒng jù sì hū bú zài cān yù hé shì chǎng jìn xíng bá hé bǐ sài zhè yàng de jī liè jìng zhú 。
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3.
She says Beijing is engaged in an economic tug of war, trying to encourage sustainable growth while struggling to control inflation.
她说，北京正在从事一场经济角力战，既要刺激经济可持续增长，又要努力控制通货膨胀。
tā shuō , běi jīng zhèng zài cóng shì yī chǎng jīng jì jiǎo lì zhàn , jì yào cì jī jīng jì kě chí xù zēng zhǎng , yòu yào nǔ lì kòng zhì tōng huò péng zhàng 。
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4.
At first glance, it looks as if a smaller galaxy has been caught in a tug-of-war between a Sumo-wrestler pair of elliptical galaxies.
乍一看，这一景象好像是一个小星系置身于一对重量级椭圆星系的拔河比赛中。
zhà yī kàn , zhè yī jǐng xiàng hǎo xiàng shì yī gè xiǎo xīng xì zhì shēn yú yí duì zhòng liàng jí tuǒ yuán xīng xì de bá hé bǐ sài zhōng 。
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5.
We are in and their feelings tug of war, first let go man will fall, I choose to fall, who let me not to love bravely speak out?
我们在和自己的感情拔河，最先松手的那个人一定会摔倒，我选择摔倒吧，谁让我不把爱勇敢地说出来？
wǒ men zài hé zì jǐ de gǎn qíng bá hé , zuì xiān sōng shǒu de nà ge rén yí dìng huì shuāi dǎo , wǒ xuǎn zé shuāi dǎo ba , shuí ràng wǒ bù bǎ ài yǒng gǎn de shuō chū lái ?
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6.
Frankly speaking, there was no scope for the physically incompetent persons in this tug of war.
坦率地说，在这种竞争激烈的战斗中，身体条件差的人是没有机会的。
tǎn shuài de shuō , zài zhè zhǒng jìng zhēng jī liè de zhàn dòu zhōng , shēn tǐ tiáo jiàn chà de rén shì méi yǒu jī huì de 。
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7.
Remember the tug-of-war a year ago, the decider in the final, we lost the power of the second seeded player disparity - 501 classes.
记得一年前的拔河比赛，在最终的决胜局时，我们第二局败给了力量悬殊的种子队选手——501班。
jì dé yī nián qián de bá hé bǐ sài , zài zuì zhōng de jué shèng jú shí , wǒ men dì èr jú bài gěi le lì liang xuán shū de zhǒng zi duì xuǎn shǒu —— wǔ líng yāo bān 。
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8.
This kind of hostile reaction has only convinced the Greeks that this crisis is a two-way tug-of-war.
这种敌视回应只会令希腊人认为，这次危机是两国间的一场拔河赛。
zhè zhǒng dí shì huí yìng zhǐ huì lìng xī là rén rèn wéi , zhè cì wēi jī shì liǎng guó jiān de yī chǎng bá hé sài 。
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9.
On a cosmic timescale , the gravitational tug of war will eventually result in the merger of the trio into a large single galaxy.
在宇宙的量级上，引力战争将会使得三个星系最终合并为巨大的单个星系。
zài yǔ zhòu de liàng jí shàng , yǐn lì zhàn zhēng jiāng huì shǐ dé sān gè xīng xì zuì zhōng hé bìng wéi jù dà de dān gè xīng xì 。
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10.
After drenching the faithful up front, the canon stops, and a large rope gets picked up and pulled in a tug of war to tip the buses over.
前面的人湿透后，水炮停止了喷洒。人们拿起一根粗绳并使劲拉，企图弄翻那些汽车。
qián mian de rén shī tòu hòu , shuǐ pào tíng zhǐ le pēn sǎ 。 rén men ná qǐ yī gēn cū shéng bìng shǐ jìn lā , qǐ tú nòng fān nà xiē qì chē 。
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