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基本解释

Then, a computer system would often run one simple sequential program at a time, and nothing could interrupt it or vie with it.
那时，计算机系统通常在同一时刻只能运行一个单独的程序，什么都不能打断它或者与它竞争。
Indeed, those institutions are already starting to vie with American andBritish ones for foreign students, particularly postgraduates.
事实上，那些学校已经在和英国以及美国的大学争抢留学生了，特别是研究生。
His secret for how to win friends and influence people read like an early Dale Carnegie course: "Would you win the hearts of others, you must not seem to vie with them, but to admire them.
他对于如何交朋友和影响人们的阐述有点像是早期的Dale Carnegie课程：“如果你打算赢得别人的信任，你不能与他们竞争，而是应该赞赏他。

So true poetry for Milton, true prophetic poetry, the kind of song that can actually vie with the most perfect music of the spheres, is only accessible, and presumably only producible, by the virgin.
对于弥尔顿来说真正的诗，真正的预言诗,真正能和天国最棒的音乐竞争的音乐，大概只能由拥有童贞的人来创作。
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In Britain and Italy satellite also has to vie with attractive free digital-terrestrial television services.
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Colleagues vie with each other for preferment, yet must collaborate closely to fend off competition from without.
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Will it co-operate with the Americans' non-proliferation agenda, or vie with India in acquiring nuclear and conventional weapons?
ECONOMIST: The general dictates the tune to which Pakistan will dance