Contest

(noun.) a struggle between rivals.

(noun.) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants.

(verb.) to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; 'They contested the outcome of the race'.

手打:撒迪厄斯

• SNOWED UP When Ursula and Birkin were gone, Gudrun felt herself free in her contest with Gerald. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• I send it you now, because I apprehend some late accidents are likely to revive the contest between the two countries. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The contest,' said Pott, 'shall be prolonged so long as I have health and strength, and that portion of talent with which I am gifted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The contest in Europe from the fourteenth century onward therefore was a three-cornered contest. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• All the troops in service could be brought to the front to contest every inch of ground threatened with invasion. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• An explosion of a smouldering volcano long suppressed, was the result of an internal contest more easily conceived than described. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• There is the width of the track, and it was only after a long and expensive contest that countries and corporations settled upon a uniform gauge. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• By eleven o'clock the skirmishing had grown into a hard-contested battle. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• The English played well, but the Americans played better, and contested every inch of the ground as strongly as if the spirit of '76 inspired them. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Edison's claims were strenuously and stubbornly contested throughout a series of intense legal conflicts that raged in the courts for a great many years. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Like most all valuable inventions, Mr. Bessemer’s claim to priority for the invention was contested. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• He has fought successfully two contested elections, and has come out of the ordeal unscathed. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Thus, in 1893, the litigation was reopened, and a protracted series of stubbornly contested conflicts was fought in the courts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• These contests served to bring out the failures, and the still-existing wants in this line of machinery. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• He was ready to go back to old times, and commemorate the contests of our fathers, and the monarch's abdication. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Then came many public trials and contests between rival manufacturers and inventors. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The litigation on the Edison lamp patents was one of the most determined and stubbornly fought contests in the history of modern jurisprudence. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Into all contests requiring athletic skill and courage, the young man, from his boyhood upwards, had flung himself with all his might. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Bell's machine, previously described, and Hussey's and McCormick's were the principal contesting machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• The fact that assumption plays a large part in our mental attitude toward practical affairs should make us wary of contesting the legitimacy of scientific hypo theses. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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