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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There were accidents to machinery, the liability of trains to run off the line, collisions, bad weather, the blocking up by snow were not all these against Phileas Fogg?
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Against a brown plaster wall was a cabinet of zoological collections and medical curiosities, and beside it the most dreadful and fascinating object known to the boy-world of Elk Mills--a skeleton with one gaunt gold tooth.
-- "Young man, do you set yourself up against science?"
-- He mourned that he had sinned against loyalty.
-- But his agitation broke against the solidity of his union with Leora.
-- He leaned against a pillar and gloated.
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：
-- He was ac-cused of 'taking part in conversations against the censorship, of reading a letter from Byelinsky to Gogol, and of knowing of the intention to set up a printing press.'
-- He walked along the pavement like a drunken man, regardless of the passers-by, and jostling against them, and 16 Crime and Punishmentonly came to his senses when he was in the next street.
-- She was pacing up and down in her little room, pressing her hands against her chest; her lips were parched and her breathing came in nervous broken gasps.
-- It had a poverty-stricken appearance with its dusty yellow paper peeling off the walls, and it was so low-pitched that a man of more than average height was ill at ease in it and felt every moment that he would knock his head against the ceiling.
-- They talk of duty, conscience I don't want to say anything against duty and conscience; but the point is, what do we mean by them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There is something strange to me, even now, in the reflection thathe never saw me; and something stranger yet in the shadowyremembrance that I have of my first childish associations with hiswhite gravestone in the churchyard, and of the indefinablecompassion I used to feel for it lying out alone there in the darknight, when our little parlour was warm and bright with fire andcandle, and the doors of our house were- almost cruelly, it seemedto me sometimes- bolted and locked against it.
-- My father had often hinted that she seldom conductedherself like any ordinary Christian; and now, instead of ringing thebell, she came and looked in at that identical window, pressing theend of her nose against the glass to that extent that my poor dearmother used to say it became perfectly flat and white in a moment.
-- Then, turningaffectionately to me, with her cheek against mine, 'Am I a naughtymamma to you, Davy?
-- I am glad to know that my mother cried too, and thatI felt her heart beat against mine.
-- It was the completest and mostdesirable bedroom ever seen- in the stern of the vessel; with a littlewindow, where the rudder used to go through; a little looking-glass, just the right height for me, nailed against the wall, andframed with oyster-shells; a little bed, which there was just roomenough to get into; and a nosegay of seaweed in a blue mug on thetable.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Perry was an intelligent, gentlemanlike man, whose frequent visits were one of the comforts of Mr. Woodhouse's life; and upon being applied to, he could not but acknowledge (though it seemed rather against the bias of inclination) that wedding-cake might certainly disagree with many perhaps with most people, unless taken mod-erately.
-- However, I do not mean to set up my opinion against your's and I am sure I shall not wish for the acquaintance of his wife.
-- Harriet was soon back again, and the proposal almost 52 Emmaimmediately made; and she had no scruples which could stand many minutes against the earnest pressing of both the others.
-- Emma assured her there would be no difficulty in the answer, and advised its being written directly, which was agreed to, in the hope of her assistance; and though Emma continued to protest against any assistance being wanted, it was in fact given in the formation of every sentence.
-- While she was gone, Mr. Knightley called, and sat some time with Mr. Woodhouse and Emma, till Mr. Woodhouse, who had previously made up his mind to walk out, was per-suaded by his daughter not to defer it, and was induced by the entreaties of both, though against the scruples of his own civility, to leave Mr. Knightley for that purpose.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane.
-- A group or two of the latest in date amongst the dead multitude had remained till this very mid-winter time on the twigs which bore them and in falling rattled against the trunks with smart taps.
-- Suddenly an unexpected series of sounds began to be heard in this place up against the sky.
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