contest是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 争夺, 竞争; 比赛; v. 争论, 争议; 斗争，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The son of Peleus now brought out the prizes for the third contest and showed them to the Argives.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After a hard contest with that eccentric action of thought which had last perplexed him, he had got the better of it.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- SNOWED UPWhen Ursula and Birkin were gone, Gudrun felt herself free in her contest with Gerald.
-- It was a contest of words, but it meant a conflict of spirit between the two men.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Does anyone contest your rights?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The clothing of both Mr. Fogg and Fix was in rags, as if they had themselves been actively engaged in the contest between Camerfield and Mandiboy.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My aunt seemed disposedto contest the point; but to facilitate matters I said I would gladlyremain behind, if they pleased; and returned into Mr. Wickfield'soffice, where I sat down again, in the chair I had first occupied, toawait their return.
-- Anexplosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was theresult of an internal contest more easily conceived than described.
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：
-- Even the most confident and the stoutest hearts began to think the issue of the contest was becoming doubt-ful; and that abject class was hourly increasing in numbers, who thought they foresaw all the possessions of the English crown in America subdued by their Christian foes, or laid waste by the inroads of their relentless allies.
-- At the same moment, Duncan found himself engaged with the other, in a similar contest of hand to hand.
-- Nei-ther party had firearms, and the contest was to be decided in the deadliest manner, hand to hand, with weapons of of-fense, and none of defense.
-- The contest gradually grew warmer, until it was quite evident the feelings of the speakers began to be somewhat enlisted in the debate.
-- It struck him, as he gazed at the admirable structures and the wonderful pre-cautions of their sagacious inmates, that even the brutes of these vast wilds were possessed of an instinct nearly com-mensurate with his own reason; and he could not reflect, without anxiety, on the unequal contest that he had so rashly courted.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So firmly did he stand and so bitterly did he contest Sherman's desire to passdown the valley toward Atlanta that finally the Yankees drew back and took counsel with themselves.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And it was not a contest of politeness, or by any means a matter of form, for she knew very well that her husband wished to enter the house in this order, that he might have a favourable opportunity of inflicting a few pinches on her arms, which were seldom free from impressions of his fingers in black and blue colours.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was wonderful to see the fury of the contest in the girl, and the bodily struggle she made as if she were rent by the Demons of old.
-- He found a contest still always going on in his breast between his promise to keep Gowan in none but good aspects before the mind of Mr Meagles, and his enforced observation of Gowan in aspects that had no good in them.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There are those this day among them, who, though intelligent and courageous enough in offering battle to the Greenland or Right whale, would perhaps either from professional inexperience, or incompetency, or timidity, decline a contest with the Sperm Whale; at any rate, there are plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations not sailing under the American flag, who have never hostilely encountered the Sperm Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan is restricted to the ignoble monster primitively pursued in the North; seated on their hatches, these men will hearken with a childish fireside interest and awe, to the wild, strange tales of Southern whaling.
-- But hereupon a fierce contest rose among them, concerning feet and inches; they cracked each other's sconces with their yard-sticks the great skull echoed and seizing that lucky chance, I quickly concluded my own admeasurements.
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