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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Of course a miracle may happen, and you may be a great painter, but you must confess the chances are a million to one against it.
-- I seemed to feel in him some vehement power that was struggling within him; it gave me the sensation of something very strong, overmastering, that held him, as it were, against his will.
-- I had said all I had to say on the subject that had brought me to Paris, and though I felt it in a manner treacherous to Mrs. Strickland not to pursue it, I could not struggle against his indifference.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- exclaimed Pencroft, heaving out two bags of sand, and as he spoke letting go the cable; the balloon ascending in an oblique direction, disappeared, after having dashed the car against two chimneys, which it threw down as it swept by them.
-- During this time Neb was struggling vigorously against the current.
-- "Still we might get fire as the savages do," replied Herbert, "by rubbing two bits of dry stick one against the other."
-- But at last they succeeded, and could only remain standing by leaning against the rocks.
-- It appeared inexplicable, above all, in the midst of this black night and in such a tempest!But what was still more inexplicable was, that Top was neither tired, nor exhausted, nor even soiled with mud or sand!Herbert had drawn him towards him, and was patting his head, the dog rubbing his neck against the lad's hands.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was perhaps not very unreasonable to suspect from what had already passed, that Mr Swiveller was not quite recovered from the effects of the powerful sunlight to which he had made allusion; but if no such suspicion had been awakened by his speech, his wiry hair, dull eyes, and sallow face would still have been strong witnesses against him.
-- The young man reclined against a table at no great distance from his friend, in apparent indifference to everything that had passed; and I who felt the difficulty of any interference, notwithstanding that the old man had appealed to me, both by words and looks made the best feint I could of being occupied in examining some of the goods that were disposed for sale, and paying very little attention to a person before me.
-- This was the signal for a general clamour, which beginning in a low murmur gradually swelled into a great noise in which everybody spoke at once, and all said that she being a young woman had no right to set up her opinions against the experiences of those who knew so much better; that it was very wrong of her not to take the advice of people who had nothing at heart but her good; that it was next door to being downright ungrateful to conduct herself in that manner; that if she had no respect for herself she ought to have some for other women, all of whom she compromised by her meekness; and that if she had no respect for other women, the time would come when other women would have no respect for her; and she would be very sorry for that, they could tell her.
-- The spirit being set before him in a huge case-bottle, which had originally come out of some ship's locker, he settled himself in an arm-chair with his large head and face squeezed up against the back, and his little legs planted on the table.
-- A fleet of barges were coming lazily on, some sideways, some head first, some stern first; all in a wrong-headed, dogged, obstinate way, bumping up against the larger craft, running under the bows of steamboats, getting into every kind of nook and corner where they had no business, and being crunched on all sides like so many walnut-shells; while each with its pair of long sweeps struggling and splashing in the water looked like some lumbering fish in pain.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- New York Street & Smith, Publishers 238 William Street Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1900 By Street & Smith In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C. "Then came Peter to Him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him?
-- But the warden pressed the door against the head of the woman, and she disappeared.
-- At first Nekhludoff could not resist her wiles, then, feeling himself at fault, he could not break off the relations against her will.
-- The other alternative--to reject all the arguments against private ownership of land which he gathered from Spencer's Social Statics, and of which he found confirmation in the works of Henry George--he could follow even less.
-- Finally, against marrying Missy in particular, was, first, the extreme probability of his finding a girl of much better qualities than Missy, and, consequently, more worthy of him; and, second, Missy was twenty-seven years old and had probably loved other men before him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way?"
-- "It's against reason," said Filby.
-- There is a sentiment arising, and it will grow, against connubial jealousy, against fierce maternity, against passion of all sorts; unnecessary things now, and things that make us uncomfortable, savage survivals, discords in a refined and pleasant life.
-- I could see the silver birch against it.
-- A pair of eyes, luminous by reflection against the daylight without, was watching me out of the darkness.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Do you hear the snow against the window-panes, Kitty?
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