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争斗

zhēngdòu

to struggle

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

to struggle

02

to fight

03

struggle

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 争斗 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 争斗 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched. Sentences without a published English translation are shown in Chinese only.

狮子为了得到食物相互争斗。shī zi wèi le dé dào shí wù xiāng hù zhēng dòu。

The lions fought with each other to get food.

若有人争斗,一人以石头或拳头打了邻人,虽未致死,却使其卧床不起:若其后能起身、扶杖行走於外,则打人者可免於刑责,但须赔偿对方因此耽误的工钱,并承担其医治的费用。ruò yǒu rén zhēng dòu, yī rén yǐ shí tou huò quán tou dǎ le lín rén, suī wèi zhì sǐ, què shǐ qí wò chuáng bù qǐ: ruò qí hòu néng qǐ shēn、 fú zhàng xíng zǒu yú wài, zé dǎ rén zhě kě miǎn yú xíng zé, dàn xū péi cháng duì fāng yīn cǐ dān wù de gōng qián, bìng chéng dān qí yī zhì de fèi yòng。

If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

世界上的人总是为了更多的自由和平等而争斗。shì jiè shàng de rén zǒng shì wèi le gèng duō de zì yóu hé píng děng ér zhēng dòu。

No published English translation for this sentence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 争斗.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 争斗.

Directly before

  • 相互争斗1
  • 而争斗1
  • 凡是争斗1
  • 互相争斗1
  • 有人争斗1

Directly after

  • 争斗的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 争斗

What does 争斗 mean in Chinese?

争斗 (zhēngdòu) means to struggle.

How do you pronounce 争斗?

争斗 is pronounced zhēngdòu.

Is 争斗 an HSK word?

争斗 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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