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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as to South America, with its Guiana, its archipelago of South Shetland, its Georgia, Jamaica, Trinidad, etc., that belongs to the English, too!Well, I'll not be the one to dispute that point!But, Toline, I should like to know your opinion of Europe, or rather your professor's."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'One might dispute your right to ask such questions,' ob-served Lebedeff's nephew.
-- But I do not dispute in the least that the number of persons consumed appears to denote a spice of greediness.'
-- He did not dispute the matter, but glanced at what was in my hand and disappeared.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, the Law of the Jungle lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a cub to be accepted by the Pack, he must be spoken for by at least two members of the Pack who are not his father and mother.
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：
-- 'We will not dispute concerning the excellence of the passage,' returned Heyward, smiling; for, as the reader has anticipated, it was he.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well," said Gideon Spilett, "it seems we must make up our minds to console ourselves with thinking that no one will come to dispute with us the possession of Lincoln Island!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nobody venturing to dispute these positions, he proceeded to observe that the human hair was a great retainer of tobacco-smoke, and that the young gentlemen of Westminster and Eton, after eating vast quantities of apples to conceal any scent of cigars from their anxious friends, were usually detected in consequence of their heads possessing this remarkable property; when he concluded that if the Royal Society would turn their attention to the circumstance, and endeavour to find in the resources of science a means of preventing such untoward revelations, they might indeed be looked upon as benefactors to mankind.
-- He was the best judge, and had a perfect right to say what he pleased; nobody could dispute that for a moment.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I admit your calculations, Captain," I replied; "I should be wrong to dispute them since daily experience confirms them; but I foresee a real difficulty in the way."
-- THE MEDITERRANEAN IN FORTY-EIGHT HOURSThe Mediterranean, the blue sea par excellence, "the great sea" of the Hebrews, "the sea" of the Greeks, the "mare nostrum" of the Romans, bordered by orange-trees, aloes, cacti, and sea-pines; embalmed with the perfume of the myrtle, surrounded by rude mountains, saturated with pure and transparent air, but incessantly worked by underground fires; a perfect battlefield in which Neptune and Pluto still dispute the empire of the world!
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I hate you to be fidgeting in MY presence,' exclaimed the young lady imperiously, not allowing her guest time to speak: she had failed to recover her equanimity since the little dispute with Heathcliff.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The third man brought the dispute to a close, most philosophically.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Elizabeth, however, did not choose to take the hint, being well aware that a serious dispute must be the conse-quence of any reply.
-- A long dispute followed this declaration; but Mr. Ben-net was firm.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I considered that this was the station of life the infinitely wise and good providence of God had determined for me; that as I could not foresee what the ends of Divine wisdom might be in all this, so I was not to dispute His sovereignty; who, as I was His creature, had an undoubted right, by creation, to govern and dispose of me absolutely as He thought fit; and who, as I was a crea-ture that had offended Him, had likewise a judicial right to condemn me to what punishment He thought fit; and that it was my part to submit to bear His indignation, because I had sinned against Him.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No one could dispute her right to come; the house was her husband's from the moment of his father's decease; but the indelicacy of her conduct was so much the greater, and to a woman in Mrs. Dashwood's situation, with only common feelings, must have been highly unpleasing; but in HER mind there was a sense of honor so keen, a generosity so romantic, that any offence of the kind, by whomsoever given or received, was to her a source of immovable disgust.
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