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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She taxed her husband with his intended crime, and a furious scene followed, in which he showed her for the first time that she had a rival in his love.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the day before the ball, Anfisa's rival snapped up the only red camellias to be had in the place, from under Platon's nose, and Platon wretched man was done for.
-- He possessed, it was said, a set of false teeth, and one day when he want-ed money for a drinking orgy, he pawned them, and was never able to reclaim them!The officer appeared to be a- rival of the gentleman who was so proud of his fists.
-- You know yourself whether I was ever really your rival or not, even when she ran away and came to me.
-- His heart was pure, he was no rival of Parfen's.
-- 'It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise!I suppose you don't believe that you have a rival in that quarter?'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nestor could alone rival him, for he was older.
-- When he had found the brave son of Lycaon he said, 'Pandarus, where is now your bow, your winged arrows, and your renown as an archer, in respect of which no man here can rival you nor is there any in Lycia that can beat you?
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：
-- He is much addicted to overestimating his own perfections, and to undervaluing those of his rival or his enemy; a trait which may possibly be thought corroborative of the Mosaic account of the cre-ation.
-- Behind these again swung, heavily opening and closing in silken folds, the rival standards of England and France.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Certain it is, his advances were signals for rival can-didates to retire, who felt no inclination to cross a lion in his amours; insomuch, that when his horse was seen tied to Van Tassel's paling, on a Sunday night, a sure sign that his master was courting, or, as it is termed, ' sparking,' within, all other suitors passed by in despair, and carried the war into other quarters.
-- Such was the formidable rival with whom Ichabod Crane had to contend, and, considering, all things, a stout-er man than he would have shrunk from the competition, and a wiser man would have despaired.
-- To have taken the field openly against his rival would have been madness; for he was not a man to be thwarted in his amours, any more than that stormy lover, Achilles.
-- But what was still more annoying, Brom took all Opportunities of turning him into ridicule in presence of his mistress, and had a scoundrel dog whom he taught to whine in the most ludicrous man-ner, and introduced as a rival of Ichabod's, to instruct her in psalmody.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I thought of Marsyas, whom the god flayed because he had dared to rival him in song.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Herbert recognized it as the ferocious rival of the tiger, as formidable as the puma, which is the rival of the largest wolf!
-- Some belonged to the Chinese species, of which the wings open like a fan, and which by the brilliancy of their plumage rival the golden pheasants.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of course the teacher who had not said it, indicated the rival who had, whom Miss Monflathers frowningly requested to hold her peace; by that means throwing the informing teacher into raptures of joy.
-- It is probable that the loss of the phoenix of clerks, even to a rival practitioner, would not have broken Mr Brass's heart; but, pretending great alacrity, he rose from his seat, and going to the door, returned, introducing his client, who led by the hand no less a person than Mr Richard Swiveller.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am a good swimmer (though without pretending to rival Byron or Edgar Poe, who were masters of the art), and in that plunge I did not lose my presence of mind.
-- It was marvellous, a feast for the eyes, this complication of coloured tints, a perfect kaleidoscope of green, yellow, orange, violet, indigo, and blue; in one word, the whole palette of an enthusiastic colourist!Why could I not communicate to Conseil the lively sensations which were mounting to my brain, and rival him in expressions of admiration?
-- But allow me to tell you that in exploring Vigo Bay you have only been beforehand with a rival society."
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