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《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But this last theory, plausible as it was, could not stand against inquiries made in both worlds.
-- Only one amongst us, Conseil, seemed to protest by his indifference against the question which so interested us all, and seemed to be out of keeping with the general enthusiasm on board.
-- And think what destruction such a mass would cause, if hurled with the speed of an express train against the hull of a vessel."
-- My mouth filled with water; I struggled against being drawn down the abyss.
-- Then turning back I struck against a wooden table, near which were ranged several stools.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And she loathed it, the sordid, too-familiar place!She was afraid at the depth of her feeling against the home, the milieu, the whole atmosphere and condition of this obsolete life.
-- No one could put her down, no one could make mock of her, because she stood among the first, and those that were against her were below her, either in rank, or in wealth, or in high association of thought and progress and understanding.
-- Hermione crowded involuntarily up against Birkin, to touch him.
-- And to make provision you have got to strive against other families, other nations.
-- Hermione set hard and poisonous against this attack.
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I uttered an expression of disgust, and pushed past him into the yard, running against Earnshaw in my haste.
-- She thought that some of them had been laying violent hands on me; and, not daring to attack her master, she turned her vocal artillery against the younger scoundrel.
-- I slid back the panelled sides, got in with my light, pulled them together again, and felt secure against the vigilance of Heathcliff, and every one else.
-- In vapid listlessness I leant my head against the window, and continued spelling over Catherine Earnshaw Heathcliff Linton, till my eyes closed; but they had not rested five minutes when a glare of white letters started from the dark, as vivid as spectres the air swarmed with Catherines; and rousing myself to dispel the obtrusive name, I discovered my candle wick reclining on one of the antique volumes, and perfuming the place with an odour of roasted calf skin.
-- Presently the whole chapel resounded with rappings and counter rappings: every man's hand was against his neighbour; and Branderham, unwilling to remain idle, poured forth his zeal in a shower of loud taps on the boards of the pulpit, which responded so smartly that, at last, to my unspeakable relief, they woke me.
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：
-- Indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself.
-- The Queen propped her up against a tree, and said kindly, 'You may rest a little now.'
-- 'To guard against the bites of sharks,' the Knight replied.
-- Years afterwards she could bring the whole scene back again, as if it had been only yesterday the mild blue eyes and kindly smile of the Knight the setting sun gleaming through his hair, and shining on his armour in a blaze of light that quite dazzled her the horse quietly moving about, with the reins hanging loose on his neck, cropping the grass at her feet and the black shadows of the forest behind all this she took in like a picture, as, with one hand shading her eyes, she leant against a tree, watching the strange pair, and listening, in a half dream, to the melancholy music of the song.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I'm not a doctor only; I'm a magistrate; and if I catch a breath of complaint against you, if it's only for a piece of incivility like tonight's, I'll take effectual means to have you hunted down and routed out of this.
-- Well, mother was upstairs with father and I was laying the breakfast-table against the captain's return when the parlour door opened and a man stepped in on whom I had never set my eyes before.
-- "Jim," says he, "rum"; and as he spoke, he reeled a little, and caught himself with one hand against the wall.
-- You have been drinking rum; you have had a stroke, precisely as I told you; and I have just, very much against my own will, dragged you headforemost out of the grave.
-- Master Pew's dead, when all's done; not that I regret it, but he's dead, you see, and people will make it out against an officer of his Majesty's revenue, if make it out they can.
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