A: Have you seen the sales report for last quarter? Who do you think is our bigest threat?
　　B: From the numbers, it seems like Borest Inc. is our bigest competitor... Le'Ban and Markford are also major contenders in our market.
　　A: Le'Ban is the new kid on the block, it's amazing they've had such tremendous success so soon...With them on the scene, the competition is cutthrough, here is information about our competitors' recent market activities.
　　B: here's information about our competitor's recent market activities...
　　A: Thanks, this will be a big help in putting together next quarter's marketing strategies.With copetition this intense, we'll have to step up production even more. We need a price we can compete with.
　　F: We're in a very competative environment. It's sink or swimin this market.
　　M: Better start swimming! we've got to find a way to outsmart the other guys. I want a preliminarily srategic marketing plan on my desk by next Tuesday... the competition never sleeps and neither should we.
　　上一季度的銷售報告你看了嗎?你認為誰對我們的威脅最大?
　　從數(shù)字上看,好像博如斯特公司是我們最大的競爭對手...雷班公司和馬克福特公司也是我們市場上的主要競爭者.
　　雷班公司是剛剛起步的新公司,他們這么快就取得如此巨大的成功真是令人吃驚...由于他們的出現(xiàn),競爭變得更加殘酷無情.
　　這里有一些我們對手最近的市場活動信息......
　　謝謝,這對制訂下一級的銷售策略非常有幫助.鑒于競爭如此激烈,我們更要加快生產(chǎn).我們需要一個有競爭力的價格.
　　我們處在一個充滿競爭的環(huán)境中,在這樣一個市場里不管成敗如何...
　　開始順利就好!我們必須找到一種比其他家伙更聰明的辦法.下周二之前把初步戰(zhàn)略性銷售計劃放在我的辦公桌上...我們的對手從來不會打盹,我們也不應(yīng)該放松.
　　contender:a person who takes part in a competition or tries to win something 競爭者;角逐者;爭奪者
　　Peter is a contender for a gold medal in the Olympics. 彼得是奧林匹克運動會金牌的爭奪者.
　　a leading/serious/strong contender for the party leadership 該黨領(lǐng)導(dǎo)權(quán)最重要的╱強勁的╱有實力的角逐者 intense:serious and often involving a lot of action in a short period of time 嚴肅緊張的;激烈的
　　intense competition/activity/speculation 激烈的競爭;緊張的活動;猖獗的投機活動
　　step something up:to increase the amount, speed, etc. of something 增加,提高(數(shù)量、速度等)
　　He has stepped up his training to prepare for the race. 他為準(zhǔn)備那場賽跑加強了訓(xùn)練.