defend是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 防守， 保卫； 为…辩护， 为…答辩，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Let him break into as many pieces as he will, the sword that he stained with my common blood; he drew to defend him-self thrust at me with all his skill for his life.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I simply mean to say that those rights that touch me...my interest, I shall always defend to the best of my ability; that when they made raids on us students, and the police read our letters, I was ready to defend those rights to the utmost, to defend my rights to education and freedom.
-- All of a sudden she shrank back, was silent; and in terror, as though expecting a blow, as though to defend herself, she raised her hands to her face.
-- His natural feeling urged him to defend himself, to prove to her she was wrong; but to prove her wrong would mean irritating her still more and making the rupture greater that was the cause of all his suffering.
-- Hearing Anna's voice, a smart, tall, English nurse with a disagreeable face and a dissolute expression walked in at the door, hurriedly shaking her fair curls, and immediately began to defend herself though Anna had not found fault with her.
-- "I can't defend his opinions," Darya Alexandrovna said, firing up; "but I can say that he's a highly cultivated man, and if he were here he would know very well how to answer you, though I am not capable of doing so."
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg and Fix were roughly hustled in their attempts to protect their fair companion; the former, as cool as ever, tried to defend himself with the weapons which nature has placed at the end of every Englishman's arm, but in vain.
-- A hundred of his soldiers had placed themselves in a position to defend the station, should the Sioux attack it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the Group had ceased to defend him.
-- The world has always been ruled by the Philanthropists: by the doctors that want to use therapeutic methods they do not understand, by the soldiers that want something to defend their country against, by the preachers that yearn to make everybody listen to them, by the kind manufacturers that love their workers, by the eloquent statesmen and soft-hearted authors--and see once what a fine mess of hell they haf made of the world!Maybe now it is time for the scientist, who works and searches and never goes around howling how he loves everybody!
-- After dinner he walked with her in the garden and sought to defend himself against he was not quite sure what, till she hinted: "My dear man, you're so apologetic about never being apologetic!If you really must be my twin brother, do me the honor of telling me to go to the devil whenever you want to.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's per-missable for anyone, I should hope, to defend himself and I never allow anyone to use violence to me on principle, for it's an act of despotism.
-- Defend her now, at least!'
-- But having gone through so much in the morning, he found a sort of relief in a change of sensations, apart from the strong personal feeling which impelled him to defend Sonia.
-- To the intense annoyance of those who maintained this opinion, the criminal scarcely attempted to defend himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He couldn't- or at all events he didn't defend mefrom Mr. Creakle, who was very severe with me; but whenever Ihad been treated worse than usual, he always told me that Iwanted a little of his pluck, and that he wouldn't have stood ithimself; which I felt he intended for encouragement, andconsidered to be very kind of him.
-- I could wish to see her, at allewents, under articles to a honest man as had a right to defend her.
-- 'Could I defend my conduct ifI did not, sir?'
-- 'Can you defend your conduct if you do, sir?'
-- Idon't defend myself, but I know well, and he knows well, or hewill know when he comes to die, and his mind is troubled with it,that he used all his power to deceive me, and that I believed him,trusted him, and loved him!'
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There would have been either the ostentation of a coxcomb, or the evasions of a mind too weak to defend its own vanities. No, I am perfectly sure that he is not trifling or silly.'
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't care for him; I don't mean to defend his good name, not I.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Epigrams and sarcasms already!Ah!I will defend myself!"
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
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