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duel

/doo-uhl, dyoo-/US // ˈdu əl, ˈdyu- //UK // (ˈdjuːəl) //

对决,对抗赛,决斗,对抗

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a prearranged combat between two persons, fought with deadly weapons according to an accepted code of procedure, especially to settle a private quarrel.
    • : any contest between two persons or parties.
  1. 1

    du·eled, du·el·ing or du·elled, du·el·ling.

    • : to fight in a duel.

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Examples

  • It was during his attempts to decrease the size of the military budget that he called none other than the Minister President of Prussia, Otto von Bismarck, a liar, resulting in the sausage duel.

  • This week, the two sides battled it out in a heated duel in one of the most prestigious science journals, Nature.

  • There was hope that, if the stars aligned, we could see a duel between Kipchoge and Bekele with both men at their best.

  • What the researchers pieced together is that this seemingly harmonious partnership evolved through a duel at the cellular and genetic levels, one that left the ant eggs largely unviable on their own.

  • For example, a section in the Kentucky Constitution requires all public officials swear they have never participated in a duel.

  • It was a duel on a larger scale, with all the uncertainty and danger that implied.

  • That, then, makes this, for the third year running, duel between Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Amy Poehler.

  • It is people like the al Wakeel family who pay the harshest price for this military duel.

  • Argentina and Belgium, earlier in the day, had fought out a fascinating duel, not unlike chess on turf.

  • Drake has been following the case on behalf of Fahmy, who is duel Canadian-Egyptian national.

  • "But I don't quite see that," persisted Spunyarn, strong in his idea that the man who fights a duel is a fool.

  • As soon as Michael made sure of the duel, he saw his confidential clerk.

  • Button Gwinnett, one of the signers, died of a wound received in a duel.

  • On the Sunday afternoon the conversation turned on the recent duel at Rome.

  • But the young nobleman provoked Du Bousquier into a duel where the latter dangerously wounded him.