one-upmanship

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /(ˌ)wʌnˈʌpmənʃɪp/    美 /wənˈəpmənˌʃɪp/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. 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.

词形变化

one-upmanships plural one-upsmanship alternative one-up-manship alternative oneupmanship alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
one-upwomanship
相关词
one-downmanship brinksmanship dick-measuring contest gamesmanship one up

词源

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