微软承认收购Tiktok部分业务的意愿遭到字节跳动拒绝后，美国软件巨头甲骨文成了该收购案的领跑者，请看本报周五的报道：

U.S. software giant Oracle quickly emerged as a frontrunner last week, winning a deal to manage TikTok’s U.S. cloud operation, after Microsoft confirmed that the app’s parent company ByteDance rejected its offer for control over its U.S. operations.

Facing political pressure from the Trump administration and threats of an outright ban if a deal couldn’t be reached by mid-September, the popular video app was said to be the focus of acquisition talks with several U.S. technology and retail companies.

报道中的frontrunner就是“竞争中的领先者、领跑者”，与另一个拼写相似的词forerunner（先驱、预兆）

不要混淆。例如：

Strauss-Kahn was once considered a frontrunner for the French presidential nomination.

卡恩曾被认为是法国总统提名人选的领跑者。

The exact nature of the first cell, the forerunner of all life today, is still a mystery.

现今所有生命的鼻祖，最初的那个细胞，它的本质依然个迷。