dispute是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. /n. 争论, 争执, 质疑，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。
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I don't even dispute it."
-- Of course, that was nonsense; but there was a dispute over it--over you.
-- After a prolonged dispute the matter was decided by the peasants taking these eleven stacks, reckoning them as fifty loads each.
-- Sometimes, too, he had experienced the opposite, expressing at last what he liked himself, which he was devising arguments to defend, and, chancing to express it well and genuinely, he had found his opponent at once agreeing and ceasing to dispute his position.
-- Levin was surprised that they should dispute upon this subject so long, especially as, when he asked Sergey Ivanovitch whether he supposed that money had been misappropriated, Sergey Ivanovitch answered: "Oh, no!He's an honest man.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The young man did not dispute it and took the money.
-- It was the first time he had addressed her since their dispute the previous day.
-- I do not dispute that he may have contribut-ed to accelerate the course of events by the moral influence, so to say, of the affront; but as to the general conduct and moral characteristics of that personage, I am in agreement with you.
-- The 'cesspool question' had already been a subject of dispute between them.
-- 'However, I won't dispute it, let me be a braggart, why not brag, if it hurts no one?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Adifference of opinion had arisen between herself and Mrs. Crupp,on an abstract question (the propriety of chambers being inhabitedby the gentler sex); and my aunt, utterly indifferent to spasms onthe part of Mrs. Crupp, had cut the dispute short, by informing thatlady that she smelt of my brandy, and that she would trouble herto walk out.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As they neared the intersecting road that came down the thickly wooded hill from Mimosa and Fairhill, the soundof hooves and carriage wheels became plainer and clamorous feminine voices raised in pleasant dispute sounded frombehind the screen of trees.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As to the strange man; if he had come back for his two bank-notes there could have been no dispute about them, because my sister was fully prepared to restore them.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A third time he called out, 'God be with you,' and then thinking he should like to know the cause of dispute between the three men, he went out and asked them why they were fighting so angrily with one another.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Indeed I must confess, that as to the people of Lilliput, Brobdingrag (for so the word should have been spelt, and not erroneously Brobdingnag), and Laputa, I have never yet heard of any Yahoo so presumptuous as to dispute their be-ing, or the facts I have related concerning them; because the truth immediately strikes every reader with convic-tion.
-- That I knew the ingredients very well, which were cheap and common; I understood the manner of compounding them, and could direct his workmen how to make those tubes, of a size proportionable to all other things in his majesty's king-dom, and the largest need not be above a hundred feet long; twenty or thirty of which tubes, charged with the proper quantity of powder and balls, would batter down the walls of the strongest town in his dominions in a few hours, or destroy the whole metropolis, if ever it should pretend to dispute his absolute commands.'
-- I mean, if the inhabitants 379ought to be believed, unless a dispute may arise concern-ing the two Yahoos, said to have been seen many years ago upon a mountain in Houyhnhnmland.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bounderby,' retorted Mrs. Sparsit, 'your will is to me a law, sir; otherwise, it might be my inclination to dispute your kind commands, not feeling sure that it will be quite so agreeable to Miss Gradgrind to receive me, as it ever is to your own munificent hospitality.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was impossible to dispute the dictatorial commands of my uncle.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The masters!In a dispute between masters and men, she was always for the men.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even her propriety could not dispute that there was impropriety in the world; but Mrs General's way of getting rid of it was to put it out of sight, and make believe that there was no such thing.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Having witnessed the little dispute between Mr. Gamfield and the donkey, he smiled joyously when that person came up to read the bill, for he saw at once that Mr. Gamfield was exactly the sort of master Oliver Twist wanted.
-- Oliver started too, though from a very different cause; for he hoped that the dispute might really end in his being taken back.
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