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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Think, my friends, of a continent, the margin of which, instead of the center, rose out of the waves originally like a gigantic ring, which encloses, perhaps, in its center, a sea partly evaporated, the waves of which are drying up daily; where humidity does not exist either in the air or in the soil; where the trees lose their bark every year, instead of their leaves; where the leaves present their sides to the sun and not their face, and consequently give no shade; where the wood is often incombustible, where good-sized stones are dissolved by the rain; where the forests are low and the grasses gigantic; where the animals are strange; where quadrupeds have beaks, like the echidna, or ornithorhynchus, and naturalists have been obliged to create a special order for them, called monotremes; where the kangaroos leap on unequal legs, and sheep have pigs' heads; where foxes fly about from tree to tree; where the swans are black; where rats make nests; where the bower-bird opens her reception-rooms to receive visits from her feathered friends; where the birds astonish the imagination by the variety of their notes and their aptness; where one bird serves for a clock, and another makes a sound like a postilion cracking of a whip, and a third imitates a knife-grinder, and a fourth the motion of a pendulum; where one laughs when the sun rises, and another cries when the sun sets!Oh, strange, illogical country, land of paradoxes and anomalies, if ever there was one on earth—the learned botanist Grimard was right when he said, ‘There is that Australia, a sort of parody, or rather a defiance of universal laws in the face of the rest of the world.'"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In a state of terrible excitement she threw back her head, with flaming eyes, casting looks of contempt and defiance upon the whole company, in which she could no longer dis-tinguish friend from foe.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He is less hurt and angry with Juno, for whatever he says she always contradicts him but you, bold hussy, will you really dare to raise your huge spear in defiance of Jove?'
-- With this she left them, and Juno said to Minerva, 'Of a truth, child of aegis-bearing Jove, I am not for fighting men's battles further in defiance of Jove.
-- Aeneas was first to stride forward in attack, his doughty helmet tossing defiance as he came on.
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：
-- The Indian answered this bold defiance by a ghastly smile, that showed an unaltered purpose, while he motioned her away, as if to close the conference forever.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though this was a concerted plot between Miss Sophy and her sister, originating in humane intentions and having for its object the inducing Mr Swiviller to declare himself in time, it failed in its effect; for Miss Jane being one of those young ladies who are prematurely shrill and shrewish, gave such undue importance to her part that Mr Swiviller retired in dudgeon, resigning his mistress to Mr Cheggs and conveying a defiance into his looks which that gentleman indignantly returned.
-- Wherefore, he only muttered a brief defiance of his master, and did as he was ordered.
-- The dog tore and strained at his chain with starting eyes and furious bark, but there the dwarf lay, snapping his fingers with gestures of defiance and contempt.
-- It seemed as if somebody on the other side of this screen had been insinuating doubts of Mr Groves's prowess, and had thereby given rise to these egotistical expressions, for Mr Groves wound up his defiance by giving a loud knock upon it with his knuckles and pausing for a reply from the other side.
-- Flinging this final interjection at Miss Sally with immeasurable scorn and contempt, Sampson Brass thrust his head into his desk, as if to shut the base world from his view, and breathed defiance from under its half-closed lid.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was a grand defiance given to the giant narwhal, and he could scarcely fail to answer the summons and "appear."
-- Still the same fierce, implacable defiance towards human society!
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She longed to know what at the moment was passing in his mind in what manner he thought of her, and whether, in defiance of everything, she was still dear to him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is certain these people do not commit this as a crime; it is not against their own con-sciences reproving, or their light reproaching them; they do not know it to be an offence, and then commit it in defiance of divine justice, as we do in almost all the sins we commit.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He bawled his lines out with such defiance that, while they really did not partake of the humour intended, they were funny.
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