opponent是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 对手， 反对者， 敌手a. 对立的， 对抗的，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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not that the discussions themselves interest me; I am not a politician, you know; but it delights me to see how they address each other 'the noble lord who agrees with me,' 'my honourable opponent who astonished Europe with his proposal,' 'the noble viscount sitting opposite' all these expressions, all this parliamentarism of a free people, has an enormous attraction for me.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- When he reached the point about the fundamental and radical law, his opponent jumped up and began to protest.
-- "Yes; that's true," said Levin; "it generally happens that one argues warmly simply because one can't make out what one's opponent wants to prove."
-- He had often had the experience of suddenly in a discussion grasping what it was his opponent liked and at once liking it too, and immediately he found himself agreeing, and then all arguments fell away as useless.
-- 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.
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：
-- As the combat-ants were now equal in number, each singled an opponent from the adverse band.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- II His opponent was a snuffy little lawyer whose strength lay in his training.
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：
-- At his first visit, indeed, he told us that he was a practical man, but still he shares, as he expressed it, many of the convictions 'of our most rising generation' and he is an opponent of all prejudices.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The noise of this vocal performance awakened the other man, who, staggering upon deck and shaking his late opponent by the hand, swore that singing was his pride and joy and chief delight, and that he desired no better entertainment.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He would go in and damage any subject whatever with his right, follow up with his left, stop, exchange, counter, bore his opponent (he always fought All England) to the ropes, and fall upon him neatly.
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 always tried my best to beat Strickland, because he was a player who despised the opponent he vanquished; his exultation in victory made defeat more difficult to bear.
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