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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He could not resist me he burst into tears, and our tears min-gled as we folded each other in a close embrace.
-- Perhaps she could not resist the satisfac- tion of pouring one last drop of bitterness into her brother Gania's cup, in spite of her love for him.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Once or twice as I stood waiting there for things to accomplish themselves, I could not resist an impulse to laugh at my miserable quandary.
-- I perceived pretty clearly that I had not the stamina either to resist what the captain chose to do to expel me, or to force myself upon Montgomery and his companion.
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：
-- But under the influence of their degraded fortunes, both officers and men appeared better disposed to await the ap-proach of their formidable antagonists, within their works, than to resist the progress of their march, by emulating the successful example of the French at Fort du Quesne, and striking a blow on their advance.
-- While, therefore, he sustained an outward appearance of calmness and fortitude, his heart leaped into his throat, whenever any of their fierce captors drew nearer than common to the helpless sisters, or fas-tened one of their sullen, wandering looks on those fragile forms which were so little able to resist the slightest assault.
-- Cora could not resist the desire to look upon her youth-ful sister, in whose eyes she met an imploring glance, that betrayed the longings of nature.
-- After musing a moment, he added: 'It is possible my glasses have deceived me, and that your works resist our cannon better than I had supposed.
-- It would seem that, while his own surprise had been anticipated, and had consequently failed, the enemy, in their turn, having been deceived in its object and in his numbers, had left too small a force to resist the impetuous onset of the young Mohi-can.
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：
-- Though he had suffered so much from the ridicule of his friends, Dirk Stroeve, eager for praise and naively self-satisfied, could never resist displaying his work.
-- He was by now so worn out that he could not resist my firmness.
-- In a little while it is impossible to resist the terror that seizes you, and you are helpless in the clutch of an unseen horror.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At any rate their clothes would last at least six months longer, for they were strong, and could resist the wear of manual labor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, the ladies being together under these circumstances, it was extremely natural that the discourse should turn upon the propensity of mankind to tyrannize over the weaker sex, and the duty that developed upon the weaker sex to resist that tyranny and assert their rights and dignity.
-- It was natural for four reasons: firstly, because Mrs Quilp being a young woman and notoriously under the dominion of her husband ought to be excited to rebel; secondly, because Mrs Quilp's parent was known to be laudably shrewish in her disposition and inclined to resist male authority; thirdly, because each visitor wished to show for herself how superior she was in this respect to the generality of her sex; and fourthly, because the company being accustomed to scandalise each other in pairs, were deprived of their usual subject of conversation now that they were all assembled in close friendship, and had consequently no better employment than to attack the common enemy.
-- Mr Quilp now walked up to front of a looking-glass, and was standing there putting on his neckerchief, when Mrs Jiniwin happening to be behind him, could not resist the inclination she felt to shake her fist at her tyrant son-in-law.
-- Burning with curiosity to know what proceedings were afoot, he resolved to pounce upon Kit's mother as the person least able to resist his arts, and consequently the most likely to be entrapped into such revelations as he sought; so taking an abrupt leave of Mr Swiveller, he hurried to her house.
-- It was some gratification to Mr Quilp to find, as he took his place upon the roof, that Kit's mother was alone inside; from which circumstance he derived in the course of the journey much cheerfulness of spirit, inasmuch as her solitary condition enabled him to terrify her with many extraordinary annoyances; such as hanging over the side of the coach at the risk of his life, and staring in with his great goggle eyes, which seemed in hers the more horrible from his face being upside down; dodging her in this way from one window to another; getting nimbly down whenever they changed horses and thrusting his head in at the window with a dismal squint: which ingenious tortures had such an effect upon Mrs Nubbles, that she was quite unable for the time to resist the belief that Mr Quilp did in his own person represent and embody that Evil Power, who was so vigorously attacked at Little Bethel, and who, by reason of her backslidings in respect of Astley's and oysters, was now frolicsome and rampant.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At first Nekhludoff could not resist her wiles, then, feeling himself at fault, he could not break off the relations against her will.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Because it requires incalculable strength to keep one's self in these strata and resist their pressure.
-- What vessel could resist the shock of his submarine monitor?
-- During some experiments of fishing by electric light in 1864 in the Northern Seas, we saw plates less than a third of an inch thick resist a pressure of sixteen atmospheres.
-- At the Captain's call two of the ship's crew came to help us dress in these heavy and impervious clothes, made of india-rubber without seam, and constructed expressly to resist considerable pressure.
-- I tried to resist sleep.
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