rival是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 竞争者, 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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing was wanted but the spark, or rather the shock of rival interests to produce the spark.
-- Such is the majestic frame that incloses this vast sheet of water whose roaring tempests rival the cyclones of Ocean.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.
-- Now Alexey Alexandrovitch intended to demand: First, that a new commission should be formed which should be empowered to investigate the condition of the native tribes on the spot; secondly, if it should appear that the condition of the native tribes actually was such as it appeared to be from the official documents in the hands of the committee, that another new scientific commission should be appointed to investigate the deplorable condition of the native tribes from the--(1) political, (2) administrative, (3) economic, (4) ethnographical, (5) material, and (6) religious points of view; thirdly, that evidence should be required from the rival department of the measures that had been taken during the last ten years by that department for averting the disastrous conditions in which the native tribes were now placed; and fourthly and finally, that that department explain why it had, as appeared from the evidence before the committee, from No.
-- The friend of his childhood, a man of the same set, of the same coterie, his comrade in the Corps of Pages, Serpuhovskoy, who had left school with him and had been his rival in class, in gymnastics, in their scrapes and their dreams of glory, had come back a few days before from Central Asia, where he had gained two steps up in rank, and an order rarely bestowed upon generals so young.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You see the world that way, and at least you aren't racing up and down the boat trying to drag patients away from some rival doc that has an office on another deck!"
-- No organization could rival Almus Pickerbaugh in the invention of Weeks.
-- And those fools at Winnemac that laughed at my idea of a real medical school, now maybe they will see-- Do you know who was my rival for Director--do you know who it was, Martin?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All these wonders afforded Peggotty as muchpleasure as she was able to enjoy, under existing circumstances:except, I think, St. Paul's, which, from her long attachment to herworkbox, became a rival of the picture on the lid, and was, in someparticulars, vanquished, she considered, by that work of art.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- GABRIEL'S RESOLVE THE VISIT THE MISTAKEThe only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind; but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting possibilities of capture to the subordinated man.
-- A MORNING MEETING THE LETTER AGAINThe scarlet and orange light outside the malthouse did not penetrate to its interior, which was, as usual, lighted by a rival glow of similar hue, radiating from the hearth.
-- Oak was unfortunately led on to speak of Boldwood's rival in a wrong tone to her after all.
-- Yet, perhaps, under the harrowing circumstances, to speak out was the one wrong act which can be better understood, if not forgiven in her, than the right and politic one, her rival being now but a corpse.
-- She had been unable to overcome an impression that some connection existed between her rival and the light through the trees.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not tell what I meant by se- 169crets of state, where an enemy, or some rival nation, were not in the case.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would have thought, had this introduction to his mother been brought about by him because he knew what she would say, and that he could thus place his position before a rival and loftily warn him off, without himself reposing a word of confidence in him?
-- Thus, instead of two rival and contending flames, a larger and a lesser, each burning with a lurid and uncertain glare, we had a blended and a softened light whose genial ray diffused an equable warmth throughout the land.
-- What time Young John lay wrapt in peaceful slumber, after composing and arranging the following monumental inscription on his pillow STRANGER!RESPECT THE TOMB OFJOHN CHIVERY, JUNIOR,WHO DIED AT AN ADVANCED AGENOT NECESSARY TO MENTION.HE ENCOUNTERED HIS RIVAL IN A DISTRESSED STATE,AND FELT INCLINEDTO HAVE A ROUND WITH HIM;BUT, FOR THE SAKE OF THE LOVED ONE,CONQUERED THOSE FEELINGS OF BITTERNESS, AND BECAMEMAGNANIMOUS.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The Rival Painters.'
-- Demi, with infantile penetration, soon discov-ered that Dodo like to play with 'the bear-man' better than she did him, but though hurt, he concealed his anguish, for he hadn't the heart to insult a rival who kept a mine of choc-olate drops in his waistcoat pocket, and a watch that could be taken out of its case and freely shaken by ardent admir-ers.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With one intent all the combined rival boats were pointed for this one fish, because not only was he the largest, and therefore the most valuable whale, but he was nearest to them, and the other whales were going with such great velocity, moreover, as almost to defy pursuit for the time.
-- As ashore, the ladies often cause the most terrible duels among their rival admirers; just so with the whales, who sometimes come to deadly battle, and all for love.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, though this might be imaginary, she could not be deceived as to his behaviour to Miss Darcy, who had been set up as a rival to Jane.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He envied him, and now, as he looked at the well-dressed jolly salesman, whom he so much liked, the gleam of the rival glowed in his eye.
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