aspirant
单词辨析：
指竞选的候选人或某一职位的申请人。
Who will be the presidential candidate?
谁将是总统候选人？
The defeated candidate demanded a recount.
落选的候选人要求重新计算选票。
Tom is the strongest candidate for the position.
汤姆是这一职位最强有力的竞争者。
通常指正式提交书面材料申请某一职位、高校入学资格等的人。
We give preference to applicants with some experience.
我们优先录用有经验的求职者。
He is the best applicant for the job.
他是这一职位的申请人中最优秀的一位。
There is no lack of applicants to this college.
该学院不乏申请者。
通常指有雄心壮志要取得成功或荣誉的人。
an aspirant for literary honour
渴望文坛扬名的人
They're aspirants to the title of world champion.
他们是有志夺取世界冠军的人。
通常指某一职位、奖项等的提名候选人。
a presidential nominee
总统候选人的被提名者
an Oscar nominee
获得奥斯卡提名的人
He is the nominee for the position.
他是该职位的被提名者。
相关例句：
But every aspirant for a security council seat faces opposition.
然而，每个觊觎安理会席位的国家都遭遇了反对之声。
Any venture capitalist will tell you how hard it is to know in advance which pitches will turn into the big hits, and which aspirant entrepreneurs will stumble and fail.
任何一位风险投资家都会告诉你，要预知哪些投球会变成漂亮的击打、哪些雄心勃勃的企业家会栽跟头并一蹶不振，是多么的困难。
The ambition of the aspirant author has always been to get published.
有抱负的作者一贯以发表作品为理想。
He resolved that his conduct should be worthy of an aspirant who was already a model of discretion.
他的谨慎一向足以为人表率，他决定他的行动应该无愧于这样的名声。
The aspirant for higher knowledge must develop the intellectual side of his nature and so strengthen his will that is able to concentrate all powers of his being on and in the plane he desires.
适合于更高知识的怀抱大志者必须发展他的天性智慧面及在他愿望的层面加强能集中他生命所有力量他的意志。
When the mind reaches this, the aspirant becomes free from all ignorance and illusion.
意识处于这个层面的求道者会从所有无知和幻像中解脱出来。