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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the meantime I took every precaution to defend my person in case the fiend should openly attack me.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She could defend herself, thank you, and if the old cats wanted to squall well, she could getalong without the old cats.
-- It had been her experience that the liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward hiscourage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.
-- I'm sure he's justas loyal and patriotic as any of us and he's just too proud to defend himself.
-- And how could dear Melly defend him?
-- Again the gray lines were summoned swiftly from their red ditches to defend the railroad, and,weary for sleep, exhausted from marching and fighting, and hungry, always hungry, they made another rapid marchdown the valley.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Each of these exclamations was a shriek; and I must remark of my sister, what is equally true of all the violent women I have ever seen, that passion was no excuse for her, because it is undeniable that instead of lapsing into passion, she consciously and deliberately took extraordinary pains to force herself into it, and became blindly furious by regular stages; "what was the name he gave me before the base man who swore to defend me?
-- "And do you defend her, Matthew," said Mrs. Pocket, "for making mischief?"
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Do these miserable animals presume to think, that I am so degenerated as to defend my veracity?
-- He held his sword drawn in his hand to defend himself, if I should happen to break loose; it was almost three inches long; the hilt and scabbard were gold enriched with diamonds.
-- I desired the secretary to present my humble duty to the emperor; and to let him know, 'that I thought it would not become me, who was a foreigner, to interfere with parties; but I was ready, with the hazard of my life, to defend his person and state against all invaders.'
-- But they thought the want of moral virtues was so far from being supplied by superior endowments of the mind, that employments could never be put into such dan- 67gerous hands as those of persons so qualified; and, at least, that the mistakes committed by ignorance, in a virtuous disposition, would never be of such fatal consequence to the public weal, as the practices of a man, whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and who had great abilities to man-age, to multiply, and defend his corruptions.
-- One of them came up almost to my face, whereupon I rose in a fright, and drew out my hanger to defend myself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had cast it out; she would keep it out; he trusted to her to defend him from himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then would the noble lord, or right honourable gentleman, in whose department it was to defend the Circumlocution Office, put an orange in his pocket, and make a regular field-day of the occasion.
-- With such mortal hostility towards the human race did she discharge this missile, that Clennam was quite at a loss how to defend himself; the rather as he had been already perplexed in his mind by the honour of a visit from this venerable lady, when it was plain she held him in the utmost abhorrence.
-- Is it necessary that I should defend myself for expressing my displeasure?
-- Notwithstanding which, he continued to defend himself, without any abatement of his flushed mood.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beth mourned as for a departed kitten, and Meg refused to defend her pet.
-- Meg hardly knew herself, she felt so brave and independent, so glad to defend John and assert her right to love him, if she liked.
-- 'What baseness!Well, if she abuses you, come to me, and I'll defend you.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The aperture was so small, that the inmates had probably not thought it worth while to defend it more securely; but it was large enough to admit a boy of Oliver's size, nevertheless.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The possibility of his having endured such unkindness, was enough to interest all her tender feelings; and nothing re-mained therefore to be done, but to think well of them both, to defend the conduct of each, and throw into the account of accident or mistake whatever could not be otherwise ex-plained.
-- You shall not defend her, though it is Charlotte Lucas.
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