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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Glenarvan and Robert had posted themselves so as to defend the opening of the RAMADA.
-- "Very well, let us defend ourselves, then, till morning."
-- Glenarvan put his arms round the young lad, and resolved to defend him as long as his life held out.
-- At noon they passed the deserted fort of Tapalquem, the first of the chain of forts which defend the southern frontiers from Indian marauders.
-- Though they could not defend themselves from the waters above, they might at least keep out of the rushing current beneath.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A lucky long shot of my re-volver might have crippled him, but I had brought it only to defend myself if attacked, and not to shoot an unarmed man who was running away.
-- Look at Mr. Stapleton's house, for example, with no one but himself to defend it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'No, oh no! there was a great flare-up, but I didn't hit her!I had to struggle a little, purely to defend myself; but the very devil was in the business.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Menelaus,' said he, 'has two good friends among the goddesses, Juno of Argos, and Minerva of Alalcomene, but they only sit still and look on, while Ve-nus keeps ever by Alexandrus' side to defend him in any danger; indeed she has just rescued him when he made sure that it was all over with him for the victory really did lie with Menelaus.
-- I shall not defend them and I shall not care.
-- The shepherd has roused the brute to fury but cannot defend his flock, so he takes shelter un-der cover of the buildings, while the sheep, panic-stricken on being deserted, are smothered in heaps one on top of the other, and the angry lion leaps out over the sheep-yard wall.
-- Stay here and help me to defend Nestor from this man's furious on-set.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what imaginary act of friendship can you here defend your-self?
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He prepared to attack us again, and we to defend ourselves.
-- I cast my eye to the stranded vessel, when, the breach and froth of the sea being so big, I could hardly see it, it lay so far of; and considered, Lord!how was it possible I could get on shore After I had solaced my mind with the comfortable part of my condition, I began to look round me, to see what kind of place I was in, and what was next to be done; and I soon found my comforts abate, and that, in a word, I had a dread-ful deliverance; for I was wet, had no clothes to shift me, nor anything either to eat or drink to comfort me; neither did I see any prospect before me but that of perishing with hun-ger or being devoured by wild beasts; and that which was particularly afflicting to me was, that I had no weapon, -either to hunt and kill any creature for my sustenance, or to defend myself against any other creature that might desire to kill me for theirs.
-- I loaded all my cannon, as I called them - that is to say, my muskets, which were mounted upon my new fortification - and all my pistols, and resolved to defend myself to the last gasp - not forgetting seriously to com-mend myself to the Divine protection, and earnestly to pray to God to deliver me out of the hands of the barbarians.
-- So I asked him whether, if I resolved to defend him, he would defend me, and stand by me, and do just as I bid him.
-- I gave him a strict charge not to bring any man who would not first swear in the presence of himself and the old savage that he would in no way injure, fight with, or attack the person he should find in the island, who was so kind as to send for them in order to their deliverance; but that they would stand by him and defend him against all such attempts, and wherever they went would be entirely under and subjected to his command; and that this should be put in writing, and signed in their hands.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Law, my dear!Don't pretend to defend him.
-- If the violence of her passions, the weakness of her understanding I do not mean, however, to defend myself.
-- "They have borne more than our conduct. Do not, my dearest Elinor, let your kindness defend what I know your judgment must censure.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He felt that all his resources could not defend him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The poor old fellow did not know how to defend himself, but wept and wailed like a child and said between his sobs: "Ungrateful boy!To think I tried so hard to make you a well-behaved Marionette!I deserve it, however!I should have given the matter more thought."
-- The dead are gone and they cannot defend themselves.
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