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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- shouted Jaffers, choking and reeling through them all, and wrestling with purple face and swelling veins against his unseen enemy.
-- On the village green an inclined strong, down which, clinging the while to a pulley-swung handle, one could be hurled violently against a sack at the other end, came in for considerable favour among the adolescent, as also did the swings and the cocoanut shies.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I stood out against it with all my might, was rather for scuttling the boat and perishing to-gether among the sharks that followed us; but when Helmar said that if his proposal was accepted we should have drink, the sailor came round to him.
-- At the sight of the former the staghounds, who had all tired of barking at me by this time, became furiously excited, howling and leaping against their chains.
-- An uncouth black figure of a man, a figure of no particular import, hung over the taffrail against the star-light, and I found Montgomery was speaking to me.
-- As I came up the ladder I saw against the flushed sky for the sun was just rising the broad back and red hair of the captain, and over his shoulder the puma spinning from a tackle rigged on to the mizzen spanker-boom.
-- It was not the first time that conscience has turned against the methods of research.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death.
-- But I caught Tabaqui by the tail and swung him twice against a palm-tree to teach him better manners.'
-- It is in my heart that when Akela miss-es his next kill and at each hunt it costs him more to pin the buck the Pack will turn against him and against thee.
-- 'And turn all the people of the villages against us?'
-- But for the sake of the Honor of the Pack, a little matter that by being without a leader ye have forgotten, I promise that if ye let the man-cub go to his own place, I will not, when my time comes to die, bare one tooth against ye.
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：
-- There are many physical as well as moral facts which corroborate this opin-ion, and some few that would seem to weigh against it.
-- The hardy colonist, and the trained Europe-an who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportu-nity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.
-- The veteran Scotchman just named held the first, with a regiment of regulars and a few provincials; a force really by far too small to make head against the for-midable power that Montcalm was leading to the foot of his earthen mounds.
-- By uniting the several detachments of his command, this officer might have arrayed nearly double that number of combatants against the enterprising Frenchman, who had ventured so far from his reinforcements, with an army but little superior in numbers.
-- A pouch and horn com-pleted his personal accouterments, though a rifle of great length**, which the theory of the more ingenious whites had taught them was the most dangerous of all firearms, leaned against a neighboring sapling.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was most in-geniously secured at vacant hours, by a *withe twisted in the handle of the door, and stakes set against the window shut-ters; so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting out, an idea most probably borrowed by the architect, Yost Van Houten, from the mystery of an eelpot.
-- The fire-flies, too, which sparkled most vividly in the darkest places, now and then startled him, as one of uncommon bright-ness would stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to give up the ghost, with the idea that he was struck with a witch's token.
-- Ichabod, on the con-trary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.
-- To have taken the field openly against his rival would have been madness; for he was not a man to be thwarted in his amours, any more than that stormy lover, Achilles.
-- Brom, who had a degree of rough chivalry in his nature, would fain have carried matters to open warfare and have settled their pretensions to the lady, according to the mode of those most concise and simple reasoners, the knights-errant of yore, by single combat; but lchabod was too conscious of the superior might of his adversary to enter the lists against him; he had overheard a boast of Bones, that he would 'double the schoolmaster up, and lay him on a shelf of his own schoolhouse;' and he was too wary to give him an opportunity.
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：
-- It is the protest of romance against the commonplace of life.
-- "Have you any complaint to make against her?"
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