Our baseball team is contending for the championship.

我棒球队争夺冠军。

Dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand.

止水和死沙在争斗着谁占上风。

This is something that supermarkets have been contending with for weeks.

这是超市几周来一直在争夺的东西。

Wu will contend for his ATP Tour title against John Isner.

吴亦冰将与伊斯内尔争夺 ATP 巡回赛冠军。

California has contended for over a century with an annual wildfire season.

一个多世纪以来，加州一直在与一年一度的山火季节做斗争。

US for its part now, have to be contended for the shot of the bronze medal when it faces Finland.

美国则要进行争夺铜牌的比赛，对手是芬兰队。

What I contend for is the authenticity of the outline.

我所争辩的是大纲的真实性。

It is not empire — but equality, that they should contend for.

他们应该争取的不是帝国， 而是平等。

In what is now modern-day Palestine, two groups  of Muslims had been contending for ascendancy.

在今天的巴勒斯坦地区，两个穆斯林群体一直在争夺优势地位。

From Hamilton's day to Lincoln's, business men in the East had contended for a sound system of national currency.

——从汉密尔顿时代到林肯时代，东方的商人一直在争取健全的国家货币体系。

Henriette poured the tea out, Madame Marty held the cup, whilst Madame de Boves and Madame Bourdelais contended for the honour of sweetening it.

亨丽埃特倒茶，马蒂夫人端着茶杯，德·博韦夫人和布尔德莱夫人争着加糖。

ALICE WINKLER: Back home, though, the Civil Rights Movement was just starting to build steam, and there was plenty of reality to contend with for a young black musician.

尽管在家乡，民权运动刚刚起步，对于一个年轻的黑人音乐家来说，有很多现实需要面对。

A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less, however, than I, who had been her dupe.

为了这样的情敌而背叛我的女人，不值得争；她只值得轻蔑；然而，比我这个被她骗了的人要少。

" No, Pip, " Joe assented, as if he had been contending for that, all along; " and what I say to you is, you are right, Pip" .

" 不，皮普，" 乔同意了，好像他一直在为此而斗争，" 我对你说的是，你是对的，皮普。

However the saga ends, Twitter's bosses will face the same puzzle they have contended with for years: how to turn their influential product into a more profitable one (see chart).

无论传奇如何结束，Twitter 的老板们都将面临他们多年来一直在思考的同样难题：如何将他们有影响力的产品变成更有利可图的产品（见图表）。

He vehemently contended for her innocence, and the remote impersonal passion for her beauty which he had felt before, had passed now into personal devotion, and tender thought of her lot.

他极力主张她是清白的，而他以前对她的美貌所产生的那种遥远的、非个人的热情，现在已经变成了个人的忠诚和对她命运的温柔思念。

Asserting the rights which women in common with men ought to contend for, I have not attempted to extenuate their faults; but to prove them to be the natural consequence of their education and station in society.

主张女性和男性一样应该争取的权利，我并没有试图减轻她们的错误；而是为了证明他们是他们所受教育和社会地位的自然结果。

At that t i me, in terms of culture and art s, the society also took on a new look of splendor, with hundreds of schools of thoughts contending for attention, various new artistic forms and ideas emerging in an endless stream.

当时，在文化艺术方面，社会也呈现出新的辉煌，百家争鸣，各种新的艺术形式和思想层出不穷。