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《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then we might have found out the road they had come by taking the exact latitude and longitude, and studying the atmospheric and submarine currents; but with such a postman as a shark, that goes against wind and tide, there's no clew whatever to the starting-point."
-- I'm proof against sorrow.
-- "It is clear enough, Paganel," said Lord Glenarvan, "that the elements are against you."
-- Presently ruins came in sight, crumbling buildings, which the night invested with grandeur, the sad remains of a deserted settlement, whose name will be an eternal protest against these fertile shores and forests full of game.
-- The intense cold quickly kills travelers, and those who even manage to hold out against it fall victims to the violence of the TEMPORALES, a sort of hurricane peculiar to those regions, which yearly fills the abysses of the Cordilleras with dead bodies.
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：
-- More wise than those who go on until the wheel turns against them, he realized his gains and returned to England with them.
-- Sherlock Holmes struck his hand against his knee with an impatient gesture.
-- I feel sure that if Sir Charles could have spoken with me before his death he would have warned me against bringing this, the last of the old race, and the heir to great wealth, to that deadly place.
-- I knew that seclusion and solitude were very necessary for my friend in those hours of intense mental concentra-tion during which he weighed every particle of evidence, constructed alternative theories, balanced one against the other, and made up his mind as to which points were es-sential and which immaterial.
-- Watson, Watson, if you are an honest man you will record this also and set it against my successes!'
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- dishonour!Stuff and nonsense!I should like to know who can reproach Nastasia Philipovna, or who can say a word of any kind against her.
-- I hope, Gania, you have nothing to say against the prince's taking up his abode in your house?'
-- It is true that her nature sometimes rebelled against these dictates of reason, and that she grew yearly more capricious and impatient; but having a respectful and well-disciplined husband under her thumb at all times, she found it possible, as a rule, to empty any little accumulations of spleen upon his head, and therefore the harmony of the family was kept duly balanced, and things went as smoothly as family mat-ters can.
-- There was evidently, he concluded, something at work here; some storm of the mind, some paroxysm of romantic anger, goodness knows against whom or what, some insa-tiable contempt in a word, something altogether absurd and impossible, but at the same time most dangerous to be met with by any respectable person with a position in soci-ety to keep up.
-- It was not for this rubbish I asked you to come over here' (he pocketed the money, however, at this point), 'it was to invite your alliance in the campaign against Nastasia Philipovna tonight.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A plain man cannot stand against the anger of a king, who if he swallow his displeasure now, will yet nurse revenge till he has wreaked it.
-- Would indeed that you had lived your span free from all sorrow at your ships, for it is all too brief; alas, that you should be at once short of life and long of sorrow above your peers: woe, therefore, was the hour in which I bore you; nevertheless I will go to the snowy heights of Olympus, and tell this tale to Jove, if he will hear our prayer: meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
-- As the sail bellied with the wind the ship flew through the deep blue water, and the foam hissed against her bows as she sped onward.
-- I love you dearly, and should be very sorry to see you get a thrashing; however grieved I might be, I could not help, for there is no standing against Jove.
-- It will be a sorry tale hereafter that an Achaean host, at once so great and valiant, battled in vain against men fewer in number than themselves; but as yet the end is not in sight.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his soft felt hat hid every inch of his face but the shiny tip of his nose; the snow had piled itself against his shoulders and chest, and added a white crest to the burden he carried.
-- She screamed and turned, and then the chair legs came gently but firmly against her back and impelled her and Hall out of the room.
-- To think it should rise up against me now!"
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without knowing it, I rubbed myself against a newly painted wall," he lied, ashamed to say that he had been made ready for the frying pan.
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