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。

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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。

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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。

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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.

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This is very different from Nabokov's idea of embodiment as a kind of alternate or rival creativity.

这和Nabokov的想法迥然不同,他讲具体化视为一种替代物或者是竞争的创造性。

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Now since God is himself the transcendent source of all being and since he is good, in a monotheistic system there are no evil agents that constitute a realm that opposes God as an equal rival.

因为上帝的力量超越万物,也因为他是上帝，在一神论体系中没有恶灵,能够形成一个可与他相抗衡的领域。

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"The Hangover Part III" didn't prove as powerful a rival as the movie's backers at Time Warner Inc.

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Mr Abramovich was described by his rival as being not very smart.

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Obama tried to paint his rival as an extension of George W. Bush, while McCain sought to portray the Democrat as a tax-and-spend liberal.

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