英语词汇contention的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	contention
词源	contention [LME] comes from Latin contendere ‘strive with’. Contender [M16th] was originally a fighter rather than a competitor, a sense immortalized in I could have been a contender, spoken by Marlon Brando in the 1954 film On the Waterfront.
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