tug of war
英 [tʌɡ ɔv wɔ:] 美 [tʌɡ ʌv wɔr]

n.

拔河，两派间的激烈竞争；

英英释义

tug of war

• n.
  • any hard struggle between equally matched groups

    同义词：tug-of-war

  • a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses

    同义词：tug-of-war

双语例句

1. A group of children were playing tag.
   一群孩子正在拔河。
2. The tug of war ended when both teams tumbled in a heap.
   拔河比赛以两边的人都倒在一堆而告终。

权威例句

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Tug-of-war as a cooperative mechanism for bidirectional cargo transport by molecular motors.
Motor Coordination via a Tug-of-War Mechanism Drives Bidirectional Vesicle Transport
Tug-of-war between dissimilar teams of microtubule motors regulates transport and fission of endosomes.
TUG-OF-WAR AND THE INFINITY LAPLACIAN
Tug of War in Motor Protein Ensembles Revealed with a ProgrammableDNA Origami Scaffold
Tug-of-War and the Infinity Laplacian
Neutrophils Versus Staphylococcus aureus: A Biological Tug of War.
The tug of war between phonological, semantic and shape information in language-mediated visual search
Tug-of-War in Nanoparticles: Competitive Growth of Au on Au−Fe3O4 Nanoparticles