one-upmanship

短语
大学

n. 胜人一筹

发音

UK /(ˌ)wʌnˈʌpmənʃɪp/
AU
US /wənˈəpmənˌʃɪp/

词形变化

one-upmanships 复数 one-upmanships

别名

oneupmanship one-upsmanship one-up-manship

教材释义与例句

名词

胜人一筹；能胜人一筹的办法

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The art or practice of successively outdoing a competitor.

    They are focused on one-upmanship, which is the essence of a competitive spirit.

  2. 2.

    A succession of instances of outdoing a competitor.

    I think all readers will be impressed by the manner in which Marwick places his own analysis in relation to previous studies both of sorcery and of conflict in general. His punctiliousness here contrasts sharply with the practice of some anthropologists who, in a contest of one-upmanship, score points either by ignoring earlier work or even by baldly asserting that it was all wrong.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

practice pattern

词源

From one-up + -manship, probably modelled after gamesmanship.

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