adversary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 敌手， 对手，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The athlete's lips curled disdainfully, and without honouring his adversary with a formal denial, he exhibited, as if by accident, that peculiarly Russian object an enormous fist, clenched, muscular, and covered with red hairs!The sight of this pre-eminently national attribute was enough to convince anybody, without words, that it was a serious matter for those who should happen to come into contact with it.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then suddenly my tense excite-ment gave way; I broke into a profuse perspiration and fell a-trembling, with my adversary routed and this weapon in my hand.
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：
-- His adversary leaped on his feet, making the arches of the forest ring with the sounds of triumph.
-- Though his adversary neglected the hills, he had planted his batteries with judgment on the plain, and caused them to be served with vigor and skill.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Brom, who had a degree of rough chivalry in his nature, would fain have carried matters to open warfare and have settled their pretensions to the lady, according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners, the knights-errant of yore, by single combat; but lchabod was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard a boast of Bones, that he would 'double the schoolmaster up, and lay him on a shelf of his own schoolhouse;' and he was too wary to give him an opportunity.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly and not shrink from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Several times I thought the Nautilus was preparing for attack; but Captain Nemo contented himself with allowing his adversary to approach, and then fled once more before it.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For instance, in the case already mentioned; they never desire 316 Gulliver's Travelsto know what claim or title my adversary has to my cow; but whether the said cow were red or black; her horns long or short; whether the field I graze her in be round or square; whether she was milked at home or abroad; what diseas-es she is subject to, and the like; after which they consult precedents, adjourn the cause from time to time, and in ten, twenty, or thirty years, come to an issue.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was certain to knock the wind out of common sense, and render that unlucky adversary deaf to the call of time.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This system or theory, call it what you will, had, it is true, a bitter adversary in M. Elie de Beaumont.
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