
Struggle
Ganh đua , phấn đấu
Struggle
Ganh đua, phấn đấu
Xem thêm: battle, conflict, battle, fight, clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, skin, sputter, contend, fight
struggle noun
1 fight
ADJ. great, life-and-death, titanic | bitter, desperate, fierce, heroic, violent There were the sounds of a desperate struggle. | just The UN supported what it saw as the just struggle of an oppressed people. | unequal | armed The group supported the armed struggle against the dictator. | class, internecine Marx wrote about the class struggle. | economic, ideological, leadership, political, power, revolutionary
VERB + STRUGGLE begin, put up, take up If someone snatched your bag, would you put up a struggle? They took up the struggle against racism. | be engaged/locked in, carry on, wage species engaged in a life-or-death struggle with the ever-changing environment
STRUGGLE + VERB ensue, take place | continue, go on | intensify
PREP. in a/the ~ One of the security guards was hurt in the struggle. | without a ~ She won't give up without a struggle. | ~ against the struggle against fascism | ~ between the struggle between good and evil | ~ for the long struggle for democracy | ~ over a struggle over the property | ~ with He was involved in a struggle with the police.
PHRASES a sign of a struggle The police said that there was no sign of a struggle by the murder victim. | years of struggle After 150 years of struggle against brutal colonial rule, the country won its independence.
2 great effort
ADJ. desperate, great, hard, real, uphill It will be an uphill struggle to maintain exports at the current level. | long | ceaseless, constant, endless | unequal
VERB + STRUGGLE face, have We had a real struggle to get everything into the suitcase. | give up I've given up the unequal struggle to keep my house tidy.
PHRASES a bit of a struggle It was a bit of a struggle for me to get there so early.
n.
getting through the crowd was a real struggle
he fought a battle for recognition
the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs
the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her
v.
She struggled for years to survive without welfare
He fought for breath
he struggled to get free from the rope
the tribesmen fought each other
Siblings are always fighting
Militant groups are contending for control of the country