Rivals

例句/造句/用法:

• 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• At every court there were groups of ministers and secretaries who played a Machiavellian game against their foreign rivals. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• Come, we will not be rivals, we will be friends, he pursued. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• 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. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• The envy of rivals soon spread false reports about him, and the professors at Pisa refused to accept the results of his studies. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• As there were not enough of his gins ready rivals were pushing their inferior machines. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• The play--a mere trifle--ran chiefly on the efforts of a brace of rivals to gain the hand of a fair coquette. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• Judges were appointed to decide as to the merits of the different machines, and in most of the tests McCormick’s reaper outdistanced all its rivals. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• She took the congratulations of her rivals and of the rest of the company with the simplicity that was her crowning grace. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• This free competition, too, obliges all bankers to be more liberal in their dealings with their customers, lest their rivals should carry them away. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• Oh, said Archer, I have so many rivals; you see she's already surrounded. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• The stars are not the rivals of the sun. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
• The State that rivals Virginia as a Mother of Presidents has evidently other titles to distinction of the same nature. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• He was scheming to make himself a real emperor, with a crown upon his head and all his rivals and school-fellows and friends at his feet. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
• His rivals combined and raised a great fund to defeat his claims. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• With the invention of the twine-binder the patent war burst out afresh, and again the courts were called upon for decisions between the rivals. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• The manufacturers of a rich nation, in the same manner, may no doubt be very dangerous rivals to those of their neighbours. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
• He would instruct his agents to issue invitations to his rivals to meet him in competition. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
• Like her rivals, said Mr. Sillerton Jackson, with the air of producing an epigram. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
• They were not lofty, but having no rivals near, they looked well and imposing where they grew. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.

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