resist是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 抵抗， 反抗； 抗， 忍得住， 抵制，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：
-- It was impossible to resist a little fellow like that, and, indeed, no one tried.
-- No doubt the tree would be able to resist the current, but the waters might rise higher and higher, till the topmost branches were covered, for the depression of the soil made this part of the plain a deep reservoir.
-- The only question was, how long would she hold out with so little sail, and what sail could resist such violence for any length of time.
-- John tried to resist at the risk of breaking his own oar, too, and Wilson, with bleeding hands, seconded his efforts with all his might.
-- He armed his two companions, and they all held themselves in readiness to resist the sailors who were filling themselves with brandy, seasoned with fearful blasphemies.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This good flunkey, in spite of his conscientious scruples, really could not resist continuing such a very genteel and agreeable conversation.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The next day was exceedingly still and sultry, and with nothing special to engage them, the Pequod's crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She answered in the affirmative, and, unable to resist the temptation,- added, 'When you met us there the other day, we had just been forming a new acquaintance.'
-- She had scarcely needed her present observation to be satisfied, from the reason of things, that their elopement had been brought on by the strength of her love, rather than by his; and she would have wondered why, without violently caring for her, he chose to elope with her at all, had she not felt certain that his flight was rendered necessary by distress of circum-stances; and if that were the case, he was not the young man to resist an opportunity of having a companion.
-- But now several minutes elapsed without bringing the sound of his voice; and when occasionally, unable to resist the impulse of curiosity, she raised he eyes to his face, she as often found him looking at Jane as at herself, and frequently on no object but the ground.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But I, that was born to be my own destroyer, could no more resist the offer than I could restrain my first- rambling designs when my father' good counsel was lost upon me.
-- Evil: I am without any defence, or means to resist any violence of man or beast.
-- Indeed, I looked back with some horror upon the thoughts of what my condition would have been if I had chopped upon them and been discovered be-fore that; when, naked and unarmed, except with one gun, and that loaded often only with small shot, I walked every-where, peeping and peering about the island, to see what I could get; what a surprise should I have been in if, when I discovered the print of a man's foot, I had, instead of that, seen fifteen or twenty savages, and found them pursuing me, and by the swiftness of their running no possibility of my escaping them!The thoughts of this sometimes sank my very soul within me, and distressed my mind so much that I could not soon recover it, to think what I should have done, and how I should not only have been unable to resist them, but even should not have had presence of mind enough to do what I might have done; much less what now, after so much consideration and preparation, I might be able to do.
-- 'Yes, yes,' says I, 'Friday; God is stronger than the devil - God is above the devil, and therefore we pray to God to tread him down under our feet, and enable us to resist his temptations and quench his fiery darts.'
-- He took them very thankfully; and no soon-er had he the arms in his hands, but, as if they had put new vigour into him, he flew upon his murderers like a fury, and had cut two of them in pieces in an instant; for the truth is, as the whole was a surprise to them, so the poor creatures were so much frightened with the noise of our pieces that they fell down for mere amazement and fear, and had no more power to attempt their own escape than their flesh had to resist our shot; and that was the case of those five that Friday shot at in the boat; for as three of them fell with the hurt they received, so the other two fell with the fright.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He had just parted from my sister, had seen her leave him in the greatest affliction; and if he felt obliged, from a fear of offending Mrs. Smith, to resist the temptation of returning here soon, and yet aware that by declining your invitation, by saying that he was going away for some time, he should seem to act an ungenerous, a suspicious part by our family, he might well be embarrassed and disturbed.
-- As for the navy, it had fashion on its side, but I was too old when the subject was first started to enter it and, at length, as there was no necessity for my having any profession at all, as I might be as dashing and expensive without a red coat on my back as with one, idleness was pronounced on the whole to be most advantageous and honourable, and a young man of eighteen is not in general so earnestly bent on being busy as to resist the solicitations of his friends to do nothing.
-- They thanked her; but were obliged to resist all her entreaties.
-- Elinor, Elinor, they who suffer little may be proud and independent as they like may resist insult, or return mortification but I cannot.
-- At one moment she was absolutely indifferent to the observation of all the world, at another she would seclude herself from it for ever, and at a third could resist it with energy.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I could not resist the temptation to come out this afternoon, it was so pleasant."
-- She could not resist the glow of his temperament, the light of his eye.
-- She thought of leaving Hurstwood and thus making him act for himself, but he had developed such peculiar traits she feared he might resist any effort to throw him off.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At this last bribery, Pinocchio could no longer resist and said firmly: "Very well.
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