六级Ted Hughes discovered many long poems submitted for poetry competition were composed on computers.

特德·休斯发现许多提交给诗歌比赛的长诗都是在电脑上创作的。

六级The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American students.

这一群体的人口统计数据与16名决赛选手的竞争数据截然不同，其中13名是女生，8名是非裔美国学生。

六级And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.

而面对面的竞争可能会给他们一个降低价格的强烈动机，可能是通过接受较低的利润率或要求供应商提供更好的交易。

六级Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

近年来，人们对高中数学竞赛的兴趣与日俱增，鉴于去年夏天美国队在国际数学奥林匹克运动会（IMO）上获胜——这是美国队20多年来首次获胜——这种趋势可能会持续下去。

高考It would never win a prize in a cooking competition, but it was surprisingly edible, and we drank up every last drop of soup.

它永远不会在烹饪比赛中获奖，但它令人惊讶地可以食用，我们喝光了每一滴汤。

高考The chief prize for the stilton cheese rolling competition is beer or port wine.

斯蒂尔顿奶酪滚动比赛的主要奖品是啤酒或波尔图葡萄酒。

四级The competition only happens every four years and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.

这场比赛每四年才举行一次，上一次参赛时，他们获得了全国第三名。

高考Competition between small and big farms is fierce.

小农场和大农场之间的竞争非常激烈。

四级There's this whole culture of competition that sucks people in" with online gaming, said Heidrich, now a father of two.

海德里奇现在是两个孩子的父亲，他说：“整个竞争文化都在通过网络游戏吸引人们。”。

六级The football team, the basketball team—that's our competition for resources, student time, attention, school dollars, parent efforts, school enthusiasm.

足球队、篮球队是我们争夺资源、学生时间、注意力、学校资金、家长努力、学校热情的比赛。

高考However, just before the annual giant vegetable competitions, an enormous rabbit begins terrorising the town.

然而，就在一年一度的巨型蔬菜比赛之前，一只巨大的兔子开始恐吓小镇。

六级One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program called MathCounts.

高中数学竞赛（包括最终进入国际海事组织的竞赛）的最大反馈者之一是一个名为MathCounts的中学项目。

考研If you see a conversation as a fight or competition, you can win by cheating as long as you don't get caught.

如果你把一次谈话看作是一场争斗或竞争，只要你不被抓住，你就可以通过作弊取胜。

六级The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

最近的一次是上周在华盛顿特区举行的。学生们通过学校加入一个团队，学校提供志愿者教练，并支付象征性的费用让学生参加地区和州比赛。

六级Native low-skilled workers suffer most from the competition of foreign labor.

本地低技能工人在外国劳动力的竞争中受害最深。

考研finally, figures close to the France government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization: e.g., curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.

最后，接近法国政府的人士私下表示，欧元区成员国应该同意某种财政和社会协调：例如，抑制公司税率或劳动力成本方面的竞争。

高考When they were free from work, they invited us to local events and let us know of an interesting competition to watch, together with the story behind it.

当他们下班后，他们邀请我们参加当地的活动，让我们知道一场有趣的比赛，以及背后的故事。

考研Despite trade competition and outsourcing, American manufacturing still needs to replace tens of thousands of retiring boomers every years.

尽管存在贸易竞争和外包，美国制造业每年仍需要取代成千上万退休的婴儿潮一代。

六级Fair competition might create a strong incentive for insurers to charge less.

公平竞争可能会产生强烈的激励，促使保险公司降低收费。

六级After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national Math Counts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.

在今年全国数学计数竞赛的高压倒计时回合中，排名前12位的学生在速射中面对面解决复杂问题，数学视频挑战赛的决赛选手上台展示了他们的视频。

考研To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

为了鼓励创新和竞争，该报告呼吁增加对研究的投资，制定连贯的课程，提高学生在21世纪解决问题和有效沟通的能力，增加对教师的资助，鼓励学者将他们的学习成果用于应对当今的巨大挑战。

六级Competition from other modes of transport.

来自其他运输方式的竞争。

四级The idea is that competition between rival operators would lead to better service at airports.

这个想法是，竞争对手之间的竞争将导致更好的机场服务。

四级The winner of this year's competition will be awarded a preview of the new fossil hall, as well as a cash prize.

今年比赛的获胜者将获得新化石馆的预览以及现金奖。

六级With competition from many countries, Antarctica is no longer dominated by the traditional white nations.

由于来自许多国家的竞争，南极洲不再由传统的白人国家主宰。

四级Competition from rival companies.

来自竞争对手的竞争。

四级The Competition Commission is now to investigate whether the British airports Authority needs to sell off some of its assets.

竞争委员会现在正在调查英国机场管理局是否需要出售其部分资产。

考研For factory owners, it all adds up to stiff competition for workers—and upward pressure on wages.

对工厂主来说，这一切都加剧了对工人的激烈竞争和工资上涨压力。

高考The pages need to be well constructed in order to win you the competition.

为了赢得竞争，页面需要构造良好。

四级Known for low-priced general goods, Woolworths has struggled in the face of competition from supermarkets expanding beyond groceries and a new generation of internet retailers.

Woolworths以低价普通商品著称，面对来自超市的竞争，这些超市不仅限于杂货店，还包括新一代互联网零售商。

六级Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.

注册国家数学俱乐部的学校或教师将获得一整套活动和资源，但没有特殊的教师培训，也没有附加竞赛。

六级Many schools simply don't prioritize academic competitions.

许多学校根本不把学术竞赛放在首位。

六级Many schools don't place academic competitions at the top of their priority list.

许多学校并不把学术竞赛放在优先考虑的事情的首位。

六级There is an element there about competition then, isn't there

那么，竞争有一个因素，不是吗

六级According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

据美国数学协会竞赛主管马克·索尔（Mark Saul）说，在数学奥林匹克队成立50年的时间里，没有一个非裔美国人或西班牙裔学生，只有少数女孩进入过该队。

四级What motivates employees to do their jobs well? Competition with coworkers, for some.

是什么激励员工做好工作？对一些人来说，与同事竞争。

六级About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-showstyle contest held each May.

全国约有10万名学生参加了该项目的系列比赛，最终在每年5月举行的全国游戏表演比赛中达到高潮。

四级But the 1980s brought new competition from Japanese film company Fuji Photo, which undermined Kodak by offering lower prices for film and photo supplies.

但20世纪80年代，日本电影公司富士照相带来了新的竞争，富士照相通过降低胶卷和照片供应的价格削弱了柯达。

高考Competition is fierce and the chief prize is a complete stilton cheese weighing about four kilos (disappointingly, but understandably the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones).

竞争非常激烈，头奖是一块完整的斯蒂尔顿奶酪，重约4公斤（令人失望，但可以理解的是，比赛中使用的奶酪是木制的）。

高考Create a website for a competition.

为比赛创建一个网站。

六级After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.

在今年全国数学竞赛的高压倒计时回合中，排名前12位的学生在速射中面对面解决复杂问题，之后，数学视频挑战赛的决赛选手上台展示了他们的视频。

六级Most of the training for advanced-math competitions happens outside the confines of the normal school day.

高等数学竞赛的大部分训练都是在正常学校日之外进行的。

六级Not only is the competition getting more intense, the application process today is also totally different from what baby boomers knew.

不仅竞争越来越激烈，今天的申请过程也与婴儿潮一代所知道的完全不同。

六级Students attend after-school clubs, summer camps, online forums and classes and university-based math circles, to prepare for the competitions.

学生们参加课外俱乐部、夏令营、在线论坛、课堂和大学数学圈，为比赛做准备。

高考The only purpose of it is to create a website that can win you a competition.

它的唯一目的是创建一个网站，可以赢得你的竞争。

六级The 224 students who make it to the national competition get an all-expenses-paid trip.

参加全国比赛的224名学生将获得一次免费旅行。

六级Winners of local contests will participate in the national math competition for free.

当地竞赛的获胜者将免费参加全国数学竞赛。

高考The competition organizer, Lady Tottington, hires Wallace and Gromit to catch the monster alive.

比赛组织者托丁顿夫人雇佣华莱士和格罗米特活捉怪物。

四级The fierce global competition.

激烈的全球竞争。

考研Competition law as presently interpreted deals with financial disadvantage to consumers and this is not obvious when the users of these services don't pay for them.

目前解释的竞争法涉及消费者的财务劣势，当这些服务的用户不为其付费时，这一点并不明显。

四级Some people, Werbach says, are motivated by competition.

沃巴赫说，有些人受到竞争的激励。

考研Competition law appears to be the only way to address these imbalances of power.

竞争法似乎是解决这些权力失衡的唯一途径。

六级The Math Video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.

数学视频挑战赛是一场比赛，但也是一场合作赛。

六级The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and 8 were African-American students.

这一组的人口统计数据与16名决赛选手的竞争数据有很大不同，其中13名是女生，8名是非裔美国学生。

四级His firm determination to win in the competition against his rivals.

他在与对手的竞争中获胜的坚定决心。

考研To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students' ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teac

为了鼓励创新和竞争，报告呼吁增加对研究的投资，制定连贯的课程，提高学生在21世纪解决问题和有效沟通的能力，增加对teac的资助

高考The competition has two levels, the beginners and the advanced.

比赛分初级和高级两个级别。

六级The final legislation might throw a public plan into the competition, but thanks to the fierce opposition of the insurance industry and Republican critics, it might not save much money.

最终的立法可能会将一项公共计划投入竞争，但由于保险业和共和党批评者的强烈反对，它可能不会节省很多钱。

六级Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest throughout the United States.

美国各地的精英高中数学竞赛吸引了更多的兴趣。

六级Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian and white students from well-off families.

精英高中数学竞赛的参赛者大多是来自富裕家庭的亚裔和白人学生。

四级For them, the right kind of gamification might be turning their sales pitches into a competition with other team members, complete with a digital leaderboard showing who is winning at all times.

对他们来说，正确的游戏化方式可能是将他们的销售宣传转变为与其他团队成员的竞争，并在数字排行榜上显示谁始终获胜。

高考When I started running in my 30s, I realized running was a battle against myself, not about competition or whether or not I was athletic.

当我30多岁开始跑步时，我意识到跑步是一场与我自己的斗争，而不是关于竞争或者我是否是运动员。

高考It's for the competition next week.

这是为下周的比赛准备的。

六级About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-style contest held each May.

全国约有10万名学生参加了该项目的比赛系列，最终在每年5月举行的全国游戏表演风格比赛中达到高潮。

六级Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

在低收入的城市和农村地区，没有参加过数学竞赛的历史的教师可能不知道像MathCounts这样的高等数学机会，而那些不知道的教师可能得不到支持，或者觉得没有受过训练来领导他们。

六级The Math video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.

数学视频挑战赛是一场比赛，但也是一场合作赛。

四级Next week, the exhibition will be taken over by the wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition.

下周，该展览将由年度野生动物摄影师大赛接管。

高考The Internet has made data abundant, all-present and far more valuable, changing the nature of data and competition.

互联网使数据变得丰富、无所不在、更有价值，改变了数据和竞争的性质。

六级For more than two decades, starting in the 1960s, the poet Ted Hughes sat on the judging panel of an annual poetry competition for British schoolchildren

20多年来，从20世纪60年代开始，诗人特德·休斯（Ted Hughes）一直担任英国小学生年度诗歌比赛的评委

六级It stresses competition rather than cooperation

它强调竞争而不是合作

高考The prize for the winner of the competition is a two-week holiday in Paris.

比赛获胜者的奖金是在巴黎度假两周。

四级The danger is that although some rules need to be updated to protect consumers from harm, existing rental businesses will try to destroy competition

危险在于，尽管一些规则需要更新以保护消费者免受伤害，但现有的租赁业务将试图破坏竞争