defy是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (公然) 违抗， 反抗； 蔑视，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。
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes he will shut up a right of way and defy the parish to make him open it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I defy you to find another beauty like that,' said a fourth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He may rail at Christmas till he dies, but he can't help thinking better of it I defy him if he finds me going there, in good temper, year after year, and saying Uncle Scrooge, how are you.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The President rang his bell; but, The Vengeance, warming with encouragement, shrieked, 'I defy that bell!'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A moderate-sized safe stood in his bedroom, constructed so as to defy fire as well as burglars; but Passepartout found neither arms nor hunting weapons anywhere; everything betrayed the most tranquil and peaceable habits.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Therespectable creature, satisfied with his lot whatever it was,arranged our portmanteaus on the little carriage that was to take usinto London, as if they were intended to defy the shocks of ages;and received my modestly proffered donation with perfecttranquillity.
-- 'What a man he is!There's a whisker!As to Charley's legs, if theywere only a pair (which they ain't), they'd defy competition.
-- What my aunt saw, or did not see, I defy the science ofphysiognomy to have made out, without her own consent.
-- The staring of Mrs. Markleham during thewhole narration, and the shrill, sharp interjections with which sheoccasionally interrupted it, defy description.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Sometimes throughout a whole season all the swarms would alight on the lowest attainable bough such as part of a currant-bush or espalier apple-tree; next year they would, with just the same unanimity, make straight off to the uppermost member of some tall, gaunt costard, or quarrenden, and there defy all invaders who did not come armed with ladders and staves to take them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I defy him to do it."
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I defy the trea-surer, or his two informers (I will name them, and let them make the best of it) Clustril and Drunlo, to prove that any person ever came to me incognito, except the secretary Rel-dresal, who was sent by express command of his imperial majesty, as I have before related.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Thus did he defy him, and Achilles raised his spear of Pelian ash.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Standing upright on a rock, irritated and menacing, Professor Hardwigg, like the ferocious Ajax, seemed to defy the fates.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.
-- In various sorts of whales, they form such irregular combinations; or, in the case of any one of them detached, such an irregular isolation; as utterly to defy all general methodization formed upon such a basis.
-- With one intent all the combined rival boats were pointed for this one fish, because not only was he the largest, and therefore the most valuable whale, but he was nearest to them, and the other whales were going with such great velocity, moreover, as almost to defy pursuit for the time.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The ends of his white neckerchief were twisted into a ball about the size of an orange; the variety of shapes into which his countenance was twisted, defy description.
-- Oliver and Sikes got in without any further ceremony; and the man to whom he belonged, having lingered for a minute or two 'to bear him up,' and to defy the hostler and the world to produce his equal, mounted also.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Tease calmness of manner and presence of mind!No, no feel he may defy us there.
-- Till I can forget his father, I can never defy or expose HIM.'
-- I defy even Sir William Lucas himself to produce a more valuable son-in-law.'
-- Young ladies have great penetration in such matters as these; but I think I may defy even YOUR sagacity, to discover the name of your admirer.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I think," replied Edward, "that I may defy many months to produce any good to me."
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