THE space race between America and the Soviet Union was as much about ideological one-upmanship as extraterrestrial exploration.

美国和苏联的空间竞争是关于外星探索上谁高人一等的问题。

She retained just a vestige of the journalist's one-upmanship.

她只保留了记者独断专行的痕迹。

It was rumored though that Octavian had only done this to embarrass Antony, using it as a sign of one-upmanship.

有传言说， 屋大维这样做只是为了让安东尼难堪，以此作为自己胜人一筹的标志。

But their egotistical one-upmanship reminds us that, in spite of its ideals, science is a personal enterprise conducted by individual— and at times deeply flawed— human beings.

但他们自负的高人一等提醒我们，尽管有其理想，科学是一项个人事业，由个体——有时是有严重缺陷的——人类进行。