Defeat

(noun.) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; 'it was a narrow defeat'; 'the army's only defeat'; 'they suffered a convincing licking'.

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• The eastern armies did not so much defeat him as push past him, and Paris capitulated in March. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Hence it was necessary to maintain a constant vigilance to defeat the insidious attacks of carping critics and others who would attempt to injure the Edison system by misleading statements. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• What is defeat? 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Even now she would not own defeat. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I must be my own mamma, said Rebecca; not without a tingling consciousness of defeat, as she thought over her little misadventure with Jos Sedley. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Evidently he did not relish the thought that Issus had learned of his inglorious defeat. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The frightened slaves about her trembled in wide-eyed expectancy, knowing not whether to pray for our victory or our defeat. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• After several severe skirmishes, in which the enemy was defeated, General Steele reached Camden, which he occupied about the middle of April. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He defeated the Babylonian army, under Belshazzar, outside Babylon, and then laid siege to the town. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He returned to France after Sedan, and flung himself into the stormy politics of the defeated nation with great fire and vigour. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was a series of battles, in which the Russian armies were finally defeated and the Grand Duke of Kieff taken prisoner. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I replied, half defeated already, that I wished to speak to himself only if he would give me leave. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• By this, however, the enemy was defeated in his designs upon Sherman's line of communications. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He met the enemy on the 5th of June at Piedmont, and defeated him. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Undismayed by forty or fifty previous defeats, Glorvina laid siege to him. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Consequently it defeats its own professed purpose. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Life covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories and defeats, recreations and occupations. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But though the insurgents experienced defeats and looting, neither of these generals brought the war to an end. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Consequently an attempt to train for too specific a mode of efficiency defeats its own purpose. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But I travel to learn, and I still remember that they picture no French defeats in the battle-galleries of Versailles. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• You might say that genius works inductively and finds a method; the conservative works deductively from the method and defeats whatever genius he may have. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• A pair of boot lacings, returned Jo, guessing and defeating his purpose. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Still, your mode of defeating Caliphronas is hardly English. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Filibustering and delay in the counting of the votes are often the only means we have of defeating bad legislation. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The Scotch were then awakened and succeeded in defeating their assailants. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A lamp so constructed and made before 1872 was worth a large sum of money to those interested in defeating the Edison patent like the American Company, and Goebel was not a rich man. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Decimus Forthridge, of the American brig Independence, showed his Yankee pluck and resource in defeating an attack of Malay pirates with no other armament than fancy fireworks. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• On the 31st, General Wilson's division of cavalry destroyed the railroad bridges over the South Anna River, after defeating the enemy's cavalry. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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