defiance是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 挑战, 挑衅; 违抗; 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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While he did this, the woman who had already spoken threw her bundle on the floor, and sat down in a flaunting manner on a stool; crossing her elbows on her knees, and looking with a bold defiance at the other two.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Without returning the wish, Carton rose too, with something of a threat of defiance in his manner, and said, 'A last word, Mr. Darnay: you think I am drunk?'
-- Disposing these articles about him in skilful manner, he bestowed a parting defiance on Mrs. Cruncher, 226 A tale of two citiesextinguished the light, and went out.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Come on, WE'LL dance," he said, as though it were a defiance to all Angus Duers.
-- With unexpected defiance from Leora: "When anybody says that, it means they're not shy, and they despise women."
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His tone of assumed arrogance and helpless defiance was gone.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My aunt smoothed her dress and shook her head, as if shesmoothed defiance of the whole world out of the one, and shook itout of the other.
-- No attempt at defiance being made, however, her face graduallyrelaxed, and became so pleasant, that I was emboldened to kiss andthank her; which I did with great heartiness, and with both myarms clasped round her neck.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is the greatest absurdity Actually snowing at this moment! The folly of not allowing peo-ple to be comfortable at home and the folly of people's not staying comfortably at home when they can!If we were obliged to go out such an evening as this, by any call of duty or business, what a hardship we should deem it; and here are we, probably with rather thinner clothing than usual, setting forward voluntarily, without excuse, in defiance of 138 Emmathe voice of nature, which tells man, in every thing given to his view or his feelings, to stay at home himself, and keep all under shelter that he can; here are we setting forward to spend five dull hours in another man's house, with nothing to say or to hear that was not said and heard yesterday, and may not be said and heard again to-morrow.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not but what he's artful, even in his defiance of them.
-- On arriving before the battlements, I found the Union Jack flying and the drawbridge up; but undeterred by this show of defiance and resistance, I rang at the gate, and was admitted in a most pacific manner by the Aged.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is lamentable to think of; but this restraint was the result of no arithmetical process, was self-imposed in defiance of all calculation, and went dead against any table of probabilities that any Actuary would have drawn up from the premises.
-- Straightway she turned her eyes back to his corner, with the defiance of last night, and moving very cautiously and softly, stretched out her greedy hand.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle never took his eyes from off it; he could not keep from gesticulating, and looking at it with a kind of sullen defiance as much as to say "That is the giant I have made up my mind to conquer."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The contention that raged within her had no softening in it now; it was wholly between passionate defiance and stubborn defiance.
-- Finding it impossible to avoid construing this demonstration into a defiance of himself, its gloomy significance being unmistakable, Clennam looked plaintively at the excellent though prejudiced lady from whom it emanated, in the hope that she might be disarmed by a meek submission.
-- The Chief Butler, who up to this time had limited himself to a branch of his usual function by looking at the company as they entered (and that, with more of defiance than favour), put himself so far out of his way as to come up-stairs with him and announce him.
-- He said a word or two of leave-taking; but Miss Wade barely inclined her head, and Harriet, with the assumed humiliation of an abject dependent and serf (but not without defiance for all that), made as if she were too low to notice or to be noticed.
-- Of a certainty Mrs Plornish did look at him now, with a sort of quivering defiance in her friendly emotion.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And having delivered her defiance all on one breath, Meg cast away her pinafore and precipitately left the field to bemoan herself in her own room.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And as upon the invasion of their valleys, the frosty Swiss have retreated to their mountains; so, hunted from the savannas and glades of the middle seas, the whale-bone whales can at last resort to their Polar citadels, and diving under the ultimate glassy barriers and walls there, come up among icy fields and floes; and in a charmed circle of everlasting December, bid defiance to all pursuit from man.
-- In Noah's flood he despised Noah's Ark; and if ever the world is to be again flooded, like the Netherlands, to kill off its rats, then the eternal whale will still survive, and rearing upon the topmost crest of the equatorial flood, spout his frothed defiance to the skies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In the next cell was another man, who was going to the same prison for hawking tin saucepans without license; thereby doing something for his living, in defiance of the Stamp-office.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The first mentioned was, that, regardless of the sentiments of either, I had detached Mr. Bingley from your sister, and the other, that I had, in defiance of various claims, in defiance of honour and humanity, ruined the immediate prosperity and blasted the prospects of Mr. Wickham.
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