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.
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原始詞典資料7 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。
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
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。