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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With a loud clear voice he shouted to the Danaans, 'My friends, princes and coun-sellors of the Argives, defend the ships yourselves, for Jove has not suffered me to fight the whole day through against the Trojans.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I threw up my arm to defend myself from the blow that flung me headlong with a broken forearm; and the great monster, swathed in lint and with red-stained bandages fluttering about it, leapt over me and passed.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said, feeling the utter helplessness of doubt in such a pressing strait; 'desert me not, for God's sake!remain to defend those I escort, and freely name your own reward!'
-- We look back at this ignorance, or infatuation, whichever it may be called, with wonder, knowing that the neglect of an eminence, whose difficulties, like those of Mount Defiance, have been so greatly exaggerated, would, at the present time, prove fatal to the reputation of the engineer who had planned the works at their base, or to that of the general whose lot it was to defend them.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of perversity to extol him.
-- The Chink was not backward to defend himself, and a very lively quarrel ensued.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were furnished with arms in case they might have to defend themselves when they alighted, and provisions in the event of their aerial voyage being prolonged.
-- Herbert was going to propose to give it the engineer's name and all his companions would have applauded him, when Cyrus Harding said simply, "Let us give it the name of a great citizen, my friend; of him who now struggles to defend the unity of the American Republic!Let us call it Lincoln Island!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I don't defend myself, Fred,' said the penitent Richard; 'but the fellow has such a queer way with him and is such an artful dog, that first of all he set me upon thinking whether there was any harm in telling him, and while I was thinking, screwed it out of me.
-- Thus, it will always happen that these men of the world, who go through it in armour, defend themselves from quite as much good as evil; to say nothing of the inconvenience and absurdity of mounting guard with a microscope at all times, and of wearing a coat of mail on the most innocent occasions.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- timidly and blushingly asked the attorney assigned by the court to defend Maslova.
-- As a result the latter began to defend his position more persistently.
-- His conversation with the lawyer, and the fact that he had already taken steps to defend Maslova, still more calmed his spirit.
-- The correctness of his views seemed to impress her; she attempted to defend the author of the drama, but immediately yielded, or found a middle ground.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I at least would defend myself.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the short and the long of the matter was, that while we could get several who were willing enough to ride to Dr. Livesey's, which lay in another direction, not one would help us to defend the inn.
-- If they none of them go, well then, we hold the cabin, and God defend the right.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, how attack this unknown thing, how defend one's self from it?
-- "Professor, I am sorry for one of the best vessels in the American navy; but they attacked me, and I was bound to defend myself.
-- Though my diver's dress was thick enough to defend me from the bite of this animal, I could not help shuddering with horror.
-- When they have to defend their young their rage is terrible, and it is not uncommon for them to break the fishing-boats to pieces."
-- "But," continued the Canadian, "if I am surprised, I will defend myself; I will force them to kill me."
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