Contended

例句:

• If two dissimilar metals could be decomposed and power at the same time produced they contended that practical work might be done with the force. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The day waned into a gloomy evening, overcast and sad, and I still contended with the same distress. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The cruiser is the result of the triumph of those who contended for high speed at the sacrifice of heavy armor protection and excessive battery strength. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• I contended with my inward dimness of vision, before which clouds yet rolled. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Having nothing, so it is thought, to do with mental activity, it becomes a distraction, an evil to be contended with. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• For a time hunger and sleep contended, till the constellations reeled before my eyes and then were lost. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• She withdrew her veil, and looked on them with a countenance in which bashfulness contended with dignity. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Upon this occasion the Irish chieftains contended which should first offer to the young Prince their loyal homage and the kiss of peace. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Edison narrates two incidents that may be taken as characteristic of a good deal that had to be contended with, coming in the shape of nefarious attack. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• There was a hurry, too, in all his thoughts, a turbulent and heated working of his heart, that contended against resignation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Physicians, after having for ages contended that the sick should not be indulged with fresh air, have at length discovered that it may do them good. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• His confidence in her, sat more easily upon him than the indecision with which he had twice contended. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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