■ peer

意义是“同侪”、“同辈”、“地位相同的人”、“能力相同的人”。

• He has few peers as a biographer.他这个传记作者，很少人能与他匹敌。
• He is the peer of any worker in the factory.他比厂里任何一个工人都不逊色。

Have no peer 是“举世无双”，可以指人，也可以指事物。

• He has no peer when it comes to debate.辩论起来，谁都比不过他。
• But in the modern era, political scandal has virtually no peer in the affair that grew out of a Wyoming oil field in the early 1920s. (US News& World Report, Jan. 14, 2008, p.28)但是在现代，政治丑闻实际上要数 20 世纪 20 年代早期由怀俄明一处油田引起的一宗事件最为空前绝后。