Hours earlier,the 59-year-old self-made millionaire had backed away from earlier statements,and agreed to accept his bitter rival, as president of a transitional government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

The anger here is directed against the superficial, the flashy, liturgies read by the Laudian priests, but I think it's also being directed at the lean and flashy songs that are being written by Milton's poetic contemporaries, his rival poets.

这里表现出的愤怒，很明显是针对，劳德式牧师们虚伪浮华的礼拜式，但我认为这也是针对这些本身很虚华,由弥尔顿同时代的诗人所写的颂歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

He greets his former rival and enemy with these words 1 This is in Genesis 33:10-11 If you would do me this favor, accept for me this gift, for to see your face is like seeing the face of God, And you have received me favorably.

他用以下的话来迎接往昔的仇敌,这段话出现在《创世纪》10章第10到11节中1,不然，我若在你眼前蒙恩，就求你从我手里收下这礼物，因为我见了你的面，如同见了神的面，并且你接纳了我。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

But in his conciliatory mood Saturday, Mr.Ravalomanana suggested he would not object to a constitutional change that would allow his arch-rival to seek the presidency.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

In any case, Aristotle returned to Athens later on and established a school of his own, a rival to the Platonic Academy " that he called the Lyceum.

无论如何，亚里士多德后来回到雅典,并建立了他自己的学校，和柏拉图的学院打擂台,他称之为，“学园。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Clinton,in a talk with reporters here, said she has been involved in intensive telephone diplomacy with President Karzai and his main election rival, former Afghan foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah, and is encouraged by what she has heard from the parties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Mr.Ban welcomed President Hamid Karzai's announcement Tuesday that he would accept a runoff with his closest rival, Abdullah Abdullah, after the U.N.-backed audit of the August 20 vote found nearly a quarter of all votes were fraudulent and had to be thrown out.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20