mindmap root((竞争)) rival usually suggests an attempt to outdo each other: success that ~ed hers. compete stresses a struggle for an objective that may be conscious but is typically a quite impersonal striving: athletes ~ing in college sports. vie suggests a less intense effort but a more conscious awareness of an opponent than compete: ~d with one another for her attention. emulate implies a conscious effort to equal or surpass one that serves as a model: strove to ~ his teachers.