適者可生存，不適者被淘汰，這是天理。從好的方面看，有競爭就有進步；從壞處想，則人人變成競爭機器，難道這是我們存在的理由？或許這已是哲學問題了，還是說回語文問題較實際：

●cut-throat a. 割喉式、無情的
Whether the consumers benefit or suffer from the recent cut-throat competition among the supermarkets has not yet known.
最近超市間的割喉式競爭，對消費者是得是失，還屬未知之數。

●best v. 打敗、勝過
I am always bested by my father in Chinese chess.
每次玩中國象棋，我經常敗於父親手上。

●tie v. 打成平手
Three super typhoons made landfall in Taiwan in 2005, which tied the previous record set in 1965.
二○○五年有三個強颱登陸台灣，平了一九六五年的紀錄。

●fair play n. 公平競爭
The advertising company knows that it's not going to survive the competitive market if it still clings to a sense of fair play.
那廣告公司明白，如果仍死抱公平競爭觀念不放，將無法在競爭激烈的市場中生存。

●odds pl. n. 可能的機率、成敗之機會
The odds are in the favor of the estate developer than its arch rival in the land auction.
在土地拍賣中，該地產發展商成功投得的機會較主要對手高。

●gain the upper hand 占上風
The government seems to gain the upper hand in its fight against corruption. It stands a chance, I guess.
政府的反腐敗鬥爭似占得上風估計，有望成功。

●stand comparison with 比得上
Her best novels stand comparison with those of the finest novelists in medieval times.
她不少小說佳作，夠得上中世紀一眾最傑出小說家的著作。
  在此僅願各讀者的英語能力「stands comparison with that of the native speakers」。