contend with sth（不得不）处理问题，对付困境
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Nurses often have to contend with violent or drunken patients.
护士经常不得不对付粗暴的或喝醉酒的病人。
American businesses could soon have a new kind of lawsuit to contend with.
美国公司可能很快就要有一种新型的官司去应付了。
His firm must contend with the unwieldy Russian bureaucracy.
他的公司必须与俄罗斯庞大的官僚机构周旋。
The competitors had to contend with squally weather conditions.
参赛者不得不应付狂风肆虐的天气条件。
We have had to contend with the disinterest of much of the medical profession about this topic.
我们必须全力对付很多医疗界人士对这一话题的冷漠。
It is time, once again, to contend with racism.
又一次到了与种族主义战斗的时刻了。
I have to contend with difficulties.
我不得不与困难作斗争。
The firm is too small to contend against [ with] large international companies.
这家公司太小，无法与国际性的大公司抗争。《汉英大词典》
The Maya were an agricultural people who had to contend with a capricious climate.
玛雅人是一个农业民族，他们不得不与多变的气候作斗争。
Apart from having to fight to save her home, she has had to contend with vitriolic press coverage.
除了不得不为拯救自己的家园而斗争之外，她还不得不与尖酸刻薄的媒体报道作斗争。
The same Southern private wrote graphically of another problem he and his comrades had to contend with, that of body lice.
同一位南方二等兵生动地描述了他和战友们必须解决的另一个问题，即体虱问题。
And like almost everyone else in business in Britain today, farmers have had to contend with persistently high interest rates.
和当今英国几乎所有商界人士一样，农民不得不与持续的高利率作斗争。