Rival

(noun.) the contestant you hope to defeat; 'he had respect for his rivals'; 'he wanted to know what the competition was doing'.

(verb.) be the rival of, be in competition with; 'we are rivaling for first place in the race'.

编辑:摩尔

• Competition with a rival was what inspired him with most passion and energy, he said, and nothing on earth made him half so much in love. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Just one hint to you, Lestrade, drawled Holmes before his rival vanished; I will tell you the true solution of the matter. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I did not say she was as beautiful as you are, said Mr. Ned, venturing to look from the portrait to its rival. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The opposition of rival manufacturers could not in the nature of things long retard what was to become one of the nation’s main industries. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• She is a pure, good woman, and will make you an excellent wife; but you have a rival. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Rival companies have sprung up, using slightly different varieties of apparatus. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• However, I rejoice to say that I have a hated rival, who will certainly cut me out the instant that my back is turned. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• They were scheming to outdo one another, to rob weaker contemporaries, to destroy rivals, so that they might for a brief interval swagger. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• At every court there were groups of ministers and secretaries who played a Machiavellian game against their foreign rivals. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He was determined to make a fortune out of cotton-spinning, and he did, in spite of the loss of his patents, and the rivals who were always pursuing him. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Come, we will not be rivals, we will be friends, he pursued. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• They knew their rivals were unscrupulous, and were in fact already trying their best to prejudice the minds of the more conservative Georgia cotton-growers against them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The envy of rivals soon spread false reports about him, and the professors at Pisa refused to accept the results of his studies. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• As there were not enough of his gins ready rivals were pushing their inferior machines. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• In the course of a century or two, several of them appear to have rivalled, and even to have surpassed, their mother cities. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• No, I hardened my heart, rivalled and out-rivalled him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But Rome never produced a very considerable industrial population, and her warehouses never rivalled those of Alexandria. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Inventors have rivalled one another in originating new forms of stitches. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This was also invented later by another inventor, and is in use to-day, but will naturally be rivalled by wireless telegraphy. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is like one house of business rivalling another house of business. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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