Thackeray was Dickens' only real rival as a popular novelist.
作为通俗小说家，萨克雷是狄更斯唯一的真正对手。
Google's main rival as a portal site, in 1999.
他是1999年出售broadcast.com网站给google主要的竞争对手门户网站yahoo后成为富翁。
An IPO in May of that year by MasterCard, its nearest rival as an enemy of deferred gratification, proved a roaring success.
同年5月，其直接竞争对手万事达的ipo计划证明是巨大的成功。
Half of all voters said they expected their taxes to go up no matter who wins, despite a campaign by Sen. McCain to paint his rival as a tax raiser.
尽管麦凯恩将对手描绘为加税者，但有一半的选民说，他们预计无论谁获胜，他们的纳税额都会增加。
Western multinationals often find that the best local people leave for a local rival as soon as they have been trained, because the prospects of rising to the top can seem better at the local firm.
西方公司常常会发现，一旦最优秀的当地人才在公司接受过培训，他们便会离职流入本土的对手公司。因为在本土公司，他们进入高层的前景更加明朗。
After that event, I don't regard him as a rival any more but count him as a good friend.
那次事件之后，我不再把他当作对手，而是把他当成是好朋友。
With Cuicuilco eliminated as a potential rival, any one of a number of relatively modest towns might have emerged as a leading economic and political power in Central Mexico.
随着Cuicuilco作为一个潜在的竞争对手被淘汰，一些相对不太大的城镇中，任何一个都有可能成为墨西哥中部主要的经济和政治力量。
Diamond interprets them as power displays by rival chieftains who, trapped on a remote little island, lacked other ways of asserting their dominance.
戴蒙德将其解释为敌对酋长的权力展示，他们被困在一个偏远的小岛上，没有其他方式可以维护自己的统治地位。
Thailand exports almost twice the amount of rice as India, its nearest rival.
泰国出口的大米接近其最近的竞争对手印度的两倍。
Even critics of the euro would concede that it has had considerable success, establishing itself in less than a decade as a genuine rival to the dollar as a world currency.
即使欧元的批评者也得承认在不到十年的时间里，以美元为对手把欧元建立为世界流通货币是一件相当可观的成就。
Although these two did jockey for the same jobs as rival composers of their era, there is little evidence that the relationship between the two was especially acrimonious.
虽然这两个人同为那个时代的作曲家并视彼此为竞争对手，但是鲜有证据表明两个人的关系真的势同水火。
And as with its rival, NGP games work only on NGPs.
与其竞争对手一样，NGP游戏只能在NGP上玩。
Texas, which likes to see itself as California's nimbler rival, again topped the list.
德克萨斯州常将自己看成是加州更机智的对手，且又一次夺冠。
They accused the hard-line president of using fraud to steal election victory from his reformist rival. Ahmadinejad was reelected as Iran President Saturday.
这些人认为，强硬派内贾德靠舞弊选举上台，从他的改革派对手手中窃取胜利。
It's even worse when it happens as your arch rival surpasses you in market value for the first time ever.
如果此时恰逢这个对手的市值平生头一回超越你，那就更糟糕了。
BlackBerry can't afford to exit the tablet business - as rival Hewlett-Packard did - because the QNX operating system running the PlayBook is the company's future.
黑莓无法像对手惠普(Hewlett- Packard)那样退出平板业务——因为PlayBook所搭载的QNX操作系统是RIM公司的未来。
Amundsen was keenly conscious of his rival, as his September 12 diary entry shows.
正如阿蒙森9月12日的日记记录那样，他很清楚的意识到自己的对手是谁。
NOT so long ago, staff at Dresdner Kleinwort, the investment-banking arm of Dresdner, a German bank, used to refer to Commerzbank, a rival, as “Comedy bank”. No one is laughing now.
不久前，德瑞斯顿银行的投行分支德累斯顿-克莱沃特（DresdnerKleinwort）的员工谈及德国商业银行这一竞争对手时，还将其冠以“滑稽的银行”，但现在没人嘲笑德国商业银行了。
Economists think of knowledge, unlike physical goods, as "non-rival" : use by one person does not necessarily preclude use by others.
经济学家认为知识并不像有形产品，是具有非竞争性的：一个人使用并不会排除他人使用。
Two decades ago Japan was seen as the main rival to America.
二十年前，日本就曾被看作是美国的主要对手。
Does he see China more as a rival than an ally?
他视中国为竞争对手还是盟友？那种成分更大一些？
Trains rival politicians as a subject on which the only acceptable attitude is one of permanent disappointment, leavened with rage.
火车可以匹敌政客，对待他们，人们唯一可以忍受的态度就是出离愤怒，不报任何希望。
Indeed, in the late 1990s Credit Suisse was one of the first private Banks to introduce "open architecture", whereby customers were offered rival investment funds as well as its own.
确实，在1990年代后期，瑞士信托是首批引入“开放式结构”的私有银行之一，顾客在这里可以得到它以及它竞争对手的资金。
The service is designed as a rival to air travel.
高铁服务的设计初衷就是与航空服务竞争。
They also have 38% of the seats in parliament, twice as many as the nearest rival.
他们在国会中还有38%的席位，是其最大竞争者的两倍。
In the meantime the environmental health groups note that the health impacts of pollution rival diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis but lacks similar systematic global systems to combat it.
同时，环境卫生组织指出，污染对人体健康的危害和艾滋病和肺结核一样严重，但却缺少和他们一样的用于对抗的体系化的全球系统。
In the meantime the environmental health groups note that the health impacts of pollution rival diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis but lacks similar systematic global systems to combat it.
同时，环境卫生组织指出，污染对人体健康的危害和艾滋病和肺结核一样严重，但却缺少和他们一样的用于对抗的体系化的全球系统。
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