Contend

(verb.) maintain or assert; 'He contended that Communism had no future'.

(verb.) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight; 'the tribesmen fought each other'; 'Siblings are always fighting'; 'Militant groups are contending for control of the country'.

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• This is the arm of which so much was heard during the recent war with Spain, and against which our soldiers had to contend. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• I would scorn to contend for empire with him--I would scorn it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Oh, Miss Jane, you don't know what I have to contend with. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• They had some difficulties to contend with which are now almost out of our path. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Well, Mr. Moore, you should contend against these changeful humours. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was vain to contend. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• We were all women and could not contend. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• 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.
• Every one has experienced that disagreeable state of mind, in which a sensation of bodily weariness in vain contends against an inability to sleep. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I only wonder that our claims, contending against the superior claims of Mr and Mrs Boffin, had any weight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was of no use arguing, contending against the sense of present happiness; to be near Robert was to be revived. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I felt no burthen, except the internal one of contrary and contending emotions. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• As this is written, the world is filled with the clang of contending armies. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less, however, than I, who had been her dupe. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• I turned to search for an opening through the contending hordes. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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