pretender

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No pretender is pan-regional enough, and only Africa’s linguistic situation may be sufficiently fluid to have its future choices influenced by outsiders.
泛區(qū)域性的替代者是沒有影響的，而且衹有非洲的語言境況會(huì)改變很快，因爲(wèi)它的未來被外界所左右。
Every expert has a story about a “blind” test in which several instruments are played out of sight and the listeners have to guess which is the Strad and which the modern pretender.
每一個(gè)專家都有一個(gè)關(guān)於矇眼測試的故事。在矇眼測試中，蓡加測試者不見樂器衹聞其聲，靠聽力辨別哪是用斯特拉瓦迪縯奏，哪是用現(xiàn)代小提琴縯奏。
Presumably because she's a United fan and not because she has always wanted to be compared to Tom Kiefer of glam rock pretender Cinderella.
這麼說吧，這是因爲(wèi)她是個(gè)曼聯(lián)球迷，而和那些亂七八糟把他和灰姑娘比的那些一點(diǎn)關(guān)系都沒有。

But,it's hard,if you're fourty-seven years, your job is a pretender to the throne, it's difficult.He had a hard time getting around.
但是,如果你要花四十七年,去爭奪王位,是很不容易的,他做得很艱苦
耶魯公開課 - 1871年後的法國課程節(jié)選
There was a pretender to the throne, and this man was--his life got off to an interesting start.
有一個(gè)覬覦王位的人,這個(gè)人的一生,有一個(gè)有趣的開始
耶魯公開課 - 1871年後的法國課程節(jié)選

More than any past election, this one will be about leadership, pitting a young pretender against an old hand.
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But these days most directors are not as willing to roll over for a chief executive, much less a pretender to the throne.
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a person who states they have a right to the high position that someone else has, although other people disagree with this

A pretender to a position is someone who claims the right to that position, and whose claim is disputed by others.