withstand是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 顶住, 挡住; 经受, 承受，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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Not a man now living could withstand them, but they heard my words, and were persuaded by them.
-- Now, therefore, let us all do as I say; let our squires hold our horses by the trench, but let us follow Hector in a body on foot, clad in full armour, and if the day of their doom is at hand the Achaeans will not be able to withstand us.'
-- I made sure the Argive heroes could not withstand us, whereas like slim-waist-ed wasps, or bees that have their nests in the rocks by the wayside they leave not the holes wherein they have built undefended, but fight for their little ones against all who would take them even so these men, though they be but two, will not be driven from the gates, but stand firm either to slay or be slain.'
-- Even so shall I make an end of you too, if you withstand me; get you back into the crowd and do not face me, or it shall be worse for you.
-- Three times have I fled round the mighty city of Priam, without daring to withstand you, but now, let me either slay or be slain, for I am in the mind to face you.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, she could not withstand the temptation of having all the dresses her heart desired--dresses made of velvet, gauze and silk--ball dresses, with open neck and short sleeves.
-- "Could I withstand these temptations?"
-- It required all his energy to withstand the jostling of the wagon.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Their object in lighting a fire was only to enable them to withstand the cold temperature of the night, as it was not employed in cooking the bird, which Neb kept for the next day.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt powerless to withstand or deny him.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.
-- 'Alas!Yes; I cannot withstand their demands.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Consider, then, what must be the resistance of their bony structure, and the strength of their organisation to withstand such pressure!"
-- What cuirass, however thick, could withstand the blows of his spur?
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He met the fox, who gave him the good advice: but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in; and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors, which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man.
-- But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves.
-- If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly gamesomeness is not in ye.
-- In more than one instance, he has been known, not only to chase the assailing boats back to their ships, but to pursue the ship itself, and long withstand all the lances hurled at him from its decks.
-- Until Cabaco's published discovery, the sailors had little foreseen it, though to be sure when, after being a little while out of port, all hands had concluded the customary business of fitting the whaleboats for service; when some time after this Ahab was now and then found bestirring himself in the matter of making thole-pins with his own hands for what was thought to be one of the spare boats, and even solicitously cutting the small wooden skewers, which when the line is running out are pinned over the groove in the bow: when all this was observed in him, and particularly his solicitude in having an extra coat of sheathing in the bottom of the boat, as if to make it better withstand the pointed pressure of his ivory limb; and also the anxiety he evinced in exactly shaping the thigh board, or clumsy cleat, as it is sometimes called, the horizontal piece in the boat's bow for bracing the knee against in darting or stabbing at the whale; when it was observed how often he stood up in that boat with his solitary knee fixed in the semi-circular depression in the cleat, and with the carpenter's chisel gouged out a little here and straightened it a little there; all these things, I say, had awakened much interest and curiosity at the time.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he went, the pangs of hunger grew so strong that, unable to withstand them, he jumped into a field to pick a few grapes that tempted him.
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