against是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为prep. 对着， 逆； 反对； 违反； 紧靠着； 对比，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《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Merry Christmas!Out upon merry Christmas!What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you?
-- Nobody under the bed; nobody in the closet; nobody in his dressing-gown, which was hanging up in a suspicious attitude against the wall.
-- Thus secured against surprise, he took off his cravat; put on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his nightcap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel.
-- Though he looked the phantom through and through, and saw it standing before him; though he felt the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes; and marked the very texture of the folded kerchief bound about its head and chin, which wrapper he had not observed before; he was still incredulous, and fought against his senses.
-- At sight of an old gentleman in a Welsh wig, sitting behind such a high desk, that if he had been two inches taller he must have knocked his head against the ceiling, Scrooge cried in great excitement: 'Why, it's old Fezziwig.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As the bank passenger with an arm drawn through the leathern strap, which did what lay in it to keep him from pounding against 17the next passenger, and driving him into his corner, when-ever the coach got a special jolt nodded in his place, with half-shut eyes, the little coach-windows, and the coach-lamp dimly gleaming through them, and the bulky bundle of opposite passenger, became the bank, and did a great stroke of business.
-- Very orderly and methodical he looked, with a hand on each knee, and a loud watch ticking a sonorous sermon un-der his flapped waist-coat, as though it pitted its gravity and longevity against the levity and evanescence of the brisk fire.
-- A wild-looking woman, whom even in his agitation, Mr. Lorry observed to be all of a red colour, and to have red hair, and to be dressed in some extraordinary tight-fitting fashion, and to have on her head a most wonderful bon-net like a Grenadier wooden measure, and good measure too, or a great Stilton cheese, came running into the room in advance of the inn servants, and soon settled the ques-tion of his detachment from the poor young lady, by laying a brawny hand upon his chest, and sending him flying back against the nearest wall.
-- There was a character about Madame Defarge, from which one might have predicated that she did not often make mistakes against herself in any of the reckonings over which she presided.
-- 'If, when I tell you, dearest dear, that your agony is over, and that I have come here to take you from it, and that we go to England to be at peace and at rest, I cause you to think of your useful life laid waste, and of our native France so wicked to you, weep for it, weep for it!And if, when I shall tell you of my name, and of my father who is living, and of my mother who is dead, you learn that I have to kneel to my honoured father, and implore his pardon for having 64 A tale of two citiesnever for his sake striven all day and lain awake and wept all night, because the love of my poor mother hid his torture from me, weep for it, weep for it!Weep for her, then, and for me!Good gentlemen, thank God!I feel his sacred tears upon my face, and his sobs strike against my heart.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed he in agony; and while he so thought, all his ideas and feelings of overpower-ing dizziness, against which he struggled with the utmost power of desperation, encompassed him with renewed force.
-- 'It is the most dreadful moment of my life: the whole world is leagued against me!'
-- He thought of the distress and agony he had endured, and praised from the very bottom of his heart the happy reality our own time which, with all its deficiencies, is yet much better than that in which, so much against his inclination, he had lately been.
-- This the lieutenant felt most poignantly, and this was the reason he leant his head against the window, and sighed so deeply.
-- The violets exhaled their sweet breath, whilst I pressed against the windowpanes covered with fan-tastic frost-work the copper coin I had heated on the stove, and so made peep-holes.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The professor was carrying on a hot crusade against materialists.
-- The thought that if he were held in check by her tone of quiet friendliness he would end by going back again without deciding anything came into his mind, and he resolved to make a struggle against it.
-- Not, I don't see why there should not be a new force, if it..." "Why, because with electricity," Levin interrupted again, "every time you rub tar against wool, a recognized phenomenon is manifested, but in this case it does not happen every time, and so it follows it is not a natural phenomenon."
-- It was as though her nature were so brimming over with something that against her will it showed itself now in the flash of her eyes, and now in her smile.
-- Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody.
-- "I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less; in nineteen hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred minutes.
-- Some took sides with Phileas Fogg, but the large majority shook their heads and declared against him; it was absurd, impossible, they declared, that the tour of the world could be made, except theoretically and on paper, in this minimum of time, and with the existing means of travelling.
-- Everything, it said, was against the travellers, every obstacle imposed alike by man and by nature.
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