competition是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 比赛, 比赛会; 竞争，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Heyward smiled to himself at the idea of a competition with the scout, though he determined to persevere in the deception, until apprised of the real designs of Magua.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then, I should think there should be no objection to market production, but in ve-ry small quantities and in fair competition with others, not under patents, as if this was a dinglebat toy for the Christmas tradings!"
-- "I suppose you get your biggest competition from Silzer, Doctor?"
-- He took up algebra; found that he had forgotten most of it; cursed over the competition of the indefatigable A and the indolent B who walk from Y to Z; hired a Columbia tutor; and finished the subject, with a spurt of something like interest in regard to quadratic equations, in six weeks .
-- This is no longer an age of parochialism but of competition, in art and science just as much as in commerce--co-operation with your own group, but with those outside it, competition to the death!Plug up the holes thoroughly, later, but we can't have somebody else stealing a march on us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a good deal of competition in theCommons on all points of display, and it turned out some verychoice equipages then; though I always have considered, andalways shall consider, that in my time the great article ofcompetition there was starch: which I think was worn among theproctors to as great an extent as it is in the nature of man to bear.
-- By little and little itcame out, that, in the competition on all points of appearance andgentility then running high in the Commons, he had spent morethan his professional income, which was not a very large one, andhad reduced his private means, if they ever had been great (whichwas exceedingly doubtful), to a very low ebb indeed.
-- As to marriage licences,the competition rose to such a pitch, that a shy gentleman in wantof one, had nothing to do but submit himself to the first inveigler,or be fought for, and become the prey of the strongest.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She did not care forthe eager competition furnished by the sixteen-year-olds whose fresh cheeks and bright smiles made one forget theirtwice-turned frocks and patched shoes.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So there can be no competition or perplexity between you and me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She also stumbled, with a large balance of success against her failures, through various philanthropic recommendations to Try our Mixture, Try our Family Black, Try our Orange-flavoured Pekoe, challenging competition at the head of Flowery Teas; and various cautions to the public against spurious establishments and adulterated articles.
-- Mrs Merdle's first husband had been a colonel, under whose auspices the bosom had entered into competition with the snows of North America, and had come off at little disadvantage in point of whiteness, and at none in point of coldness.
-- And Mr Dorrit's daughter that day began, in earnest, her competition with that woman not present; and began it so well that Mr Dorrit could all but have taken his affidavit, if required, that Mrs Sparkler had all her life been lying at full length in the lap of luxury, and had never heard of such a rough word in the English tongue as Marshalsea.
-- Little Dorrit thought of the competition that was to be entered upon, and assented very softly.
-- My poverty will not bear competition with their money.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had not a temper to bear the sort of competition in which we stood the sort of preference which was often given me.'
-- Jane was beyond competition her favourite child.
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