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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The girl, who wore no riding-habit, looked around for a moment, as if to assure herself that all humanity was out of view, then dexterously dropped backwards flat upon the pony's back, her head over its tail, her feet against its shoulders, and her eyes to the sky.
-- She came, the pail in one hand, hanging against her knee.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her house (known in the neighborhood as the _Maison Vauquer_) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest.
-- Dramas brought to a close or still in progress are foreshadowed by the sight of such actors as these, not the dramas that are played before the footlights and against a background of painted canvas, but dumb dramas of life, frost-bound dramas that sere hearts like fire, dramas that do not end with the actors' lives.
-- He seemed to delight in scourging the upper classes of society with the lash of his tongue, to take pleasure in convicting it of inconsistency, in mocking at law and order with some grim jest worthy of Juvenal, as if some grudge against the social system rankled in him, as if there were some mystery carefully hidden away in his life.
-- At the beginning of Eugene de Rastignac's second twelvemonth, this figure suddenly started out into bold relief against the background of human forms and faces among which the law student was yet to live for another two years to come.
-- He was proof against her malice, and in desperation she spoke to him and of him slightingly before the other lodgers, who began to amuse themselves at his expense, and so gratified her desire for revenge.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I listened to his statement, which was delivered without any presumption or affectation, and then added that his lecture had removed my prejudices against modern chemists; I expressed myself in measured terms, with the modesty and deference due from a youth to his instructor, without letting escape (inexperience in life would have made me ashamed) any of the enthusiasm which stimulated my intended labours.
-- It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.
-- Come, Victor; not brooding thoughts of vengeance against the assassin, but with feelings of peace and gentle-ness, that will heal, instead of festering, the wounds of our minds.
-- No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than I be-came convinced of its truth; my teeth chattered, and I was forced to lean against a tree for support.
-- The trial began, and after the advocate against her had stated the charge, several witnesses were called.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Abovethem, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin that skin soprized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
-- Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees thatwere solid masses of white blossoms against the background of new green.
-- In the strange half-light, the tall pines of the river swamp, so warmly green in the sunshine, were black against thepastel sky, an impenetrable row of black giants hiding the slow yellow water at their feet.
-- She had hoped against hope that something would keep Melanie Hamilton inAtlanta where she belonged, and the knowledge that even her father approved of her sweet quiet nature, so differentfrom her own, forced her into the open.
-- "Why, Pa, Ashley is not " "Hold your whist, Puss!I said nothing against the lad, for I like him.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She made it a powerful merit in herself, and a strong reproach against Joe, that she wore this apron so much.
-- First, with her left hand she jammed the loaf hard and fast against her bib,--where it sometimes got a pin into it, and sometimes a needle, which we afterwards got into our mouths.
-- By this time, my sister was quite desperate, so she pounced on Joe, and, taking him by the two whiskers, knocked his head for a little while against the wall behind him, while I sat in the corner, looking guiltily on.
-- I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuading arguments of my best friends.
-- A bitter sleet came rattling against us here on the east wind, and Joe took me on his back.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said Hans aloud, 'what a fine thing it is to ride on horseback!There he sits as easy and happy as if he was at home, in the chair by his fireside; he trips against no stones, saves shoe-leather, and gets on he hardly knows how.'
-- The ass placed himself upright on his hind legs, with his forefeet resting against the window; the dog got upon his back; the cat scrambled up to the dog's shoulders, and the cock flew up and sat upon the cat's head.
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