Dimly aware that her cousin was fencing with an invisible adversary, nevertheless Alice Mellen was too tired, that night, to range herself upon the side of that adversary. As far as she was concerned, Ethel had dropped upon her like a bolt from the blue. She was too busy, too absorbed in her patients to give more than a passing thought to even her most intimate cousin. And besides, Weldon--She pulled herself together sharply.英文原著 · 《On The Firing Line》
Gloomy and soul-harassing thoughts troubled him night and day. For him there was no longer any joy of life or peace of mind, and the future was dark with despair. 77
Yet the Lord forsook him not. By messages of reproof and by severe judgments, He sought to arouse the king to a realization of the sinfulness of his course. He removed His protecting care and permitted adversaries to harass and weaken the kingdom. "The Lord stirred up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite. And God stirred him up another adversary, Rezon, . captain over a band," who "abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.英文原著 · 《Prophets and Kings》
Thus the parson of the parish was dragged before the magistrate, while Hind, before his dupe could furnish an explanation, had placed many a mile between himself and his adversary.英文原著 · 《A Book of Scoundrels》
Not that my adversary took the trouble to ascertain. He was looking at me strangely in the electric light, standing intently on his guard, his right hand in the pocket where he had dropped his revolver. And I - I hardly knew it - but I caught up the first thing handy for self-defence, and was brandishing the bottle which Raffles and I had emptied in honor of my arrival on this fatal scene.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"So he really did get out at nights?" remarked my adversary. "You certainly give your friend away. What's he doing now?"英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
"The same day. They were both to fire together. The second of his adversary asserts that he was paralyzed with terror; his own second declares that he was resolved, however he might have lived, to confront death courageously by offering his life at the first fire to the man whom he had injured. Which account is true, I know not. It is only certain that he did not discharge his pistol, that he fell by his antagonist's first bullet, and that he never spoke afterward."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
The same things that made him a profit center for you will make him a difficult adversary if he's not handled right.美剧 · 《Billions》
Yesterday, this company came under attack by an unscrupulous adversary who will stop at nothing to abuse the authority of the state, take away our freedoms, and close our doors forever.美剧 · 《Billions》
You were such a worthy fucking adversary that even with a much smaller bankroll you cost me my relationship and pushed me to a stalemate.美剧 · 《Billions》