商務英語：今日熱詞——激烈的爭斗

全行業的（形容詞）

(adjective) Occurring throughout an entire industry. (NOTE: also "industry-wide")

EXAMPLE: An industrywide shortage of materials has hurt us as well as our competitors.

全行業的材料短缺傷害了我們，也傷害了競爭對手。

pitched battle

激烈的爭斗

A very intense conflict between two or more competitors.

EXAMPLE: Spending a fortune on advertising and pushing their sales representatives to the limits, the rival companies engaged in a pitched battle for dominance of their industry.

這家競爭對手為了取得行業主導地位發起了激烈的爭斗，在廣告上大把投錢，把銷售代表逼到了極致。