defence是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 防卫, 防护, 防御物; 辩护; 被告律师，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《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Hm!芒聙娄 So the only evidence for the defence is that they were beating one another and laughing.
-- Then, I remember, I main-tain in my article that all 芒聙娄 well, legislators and leaders of 368 Crime and Punishmentmen, such as Lycurgus, Solon, Mahomet, Napoleon, and so on, were all without exception criminals, from the very fact that, making a new law, they transgressed the ancient one, handed down from their ancestors and held sacred by the people, and they did not stop short at bloodshed ei-ther, if that bloodshed often of innocent persons fighting bravely in defence of ancient law were of use to their cause.
-- 'I perceive, Avdotya Romanovna, that you seem disposed to undertake his defence all of a sudden,' Luzhin observed, twisting his lips into an ambiguous smile, 'there's no doubt that he is an astute man, and insinuating where ladies are concerned, of which Marfa Petrovna, who has died so strangely, is a terrible instance.
-- He-he-he!Though, indeed, all those psychological means of defence are not very reliable and cut both ways: illness, de-lirium, I don't remember that's all right, but why, my good sir, in your illness and in your delirium were you haunted by just those delusions and not by any others?
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The defence and salvation of the body by daily bread is still a study, a religion, and a desire.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Old Orlick felt that the situation admitted of nothing less than coming on, and was on his defence straightway; so, without so much as pulling off their singed and burnt aprons, they went at one another, like two giants.
-- But when the defence come on, then I see the plan plainer; for, says the counsellor for Compeyson, 'My lord and gentlemen, here you has afore you, side by side, two persons as your eyes can separate wide; one, the younger, well brought up, who will be spoke to as such; one, the elder, ill brought up, who will be spoke to as such; one, the younger, seldom if ever seen in these here transactions, and only suspected; t'other, the elder, always seen in 'em and always wi' his guilt brought home.
-- "Why, the deed may not have merited quite so terrible a name," said Herbert, "but, she was tried for it, and Mr. Jaggers defended her, and the reputation of that defence first made his name known to Provis.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understand-ing, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.
-- I remember, when I was once interceding with the emperor for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had received by order and ran away with; and happening to tell his majesty, by way of extenuation, that it was only a breach of trust, the emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer as a defence the great-est aggravation of the crime; and truly I had little to say in return, farther than the common answer, that different nations had different customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed.
-- I described that extraordinary care always taken of their education in arts and arms, to qualify them for be-ing counsellors both to the king and kingdom; to have a share in the legislature; to be members of the highest court of judicature, whence there can be no appeal; and to be champions always ready for the defence of their prince and country, by their valour, conduct, and fidelity.
-- The first and the mildest course is, by keeping the island hover-ing over such a town, and the lands about it, whereby he can deprive them of the benefit of the sun and the rain, and con-sequently afflict the inhabitants with dearth and diseases: and if the crime deserve it, they are at the same time pelted from above with great stones, against which they have no defence but by creeping into cellars or caves, while the roofs of their houses are beaten to pieces.
-- He likewise directed, 'that every senator in the great council of a nation, after he had delivered his opinion, and argued in the defence of it, should be obliged to give his vote directly contrary; because if that were done, the result would infallibly terminate in the good of the public.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He was, in some paralysing way, conscious of his own defencelessness, though he had all the defence of privilege.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I say nothing in defence of pride, but I am proud.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A scheme of which every part promises delight can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.'
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I was not so much surprised with the lightning as I was with the thought which darted into my mind as swift as the lightning itself - Oh, my powder!My very heart sank within me when I thought that, at one blast, all my powder might be destroyed; on which, not my defence only, but the providing my food, as I thought, entirely depended.
-- This made me resolve to cut some more stakes, and make me a hedge like this, in a semi-circle round my wall (I mean that of my first dwelling), which I did; and placing the trees or stakes in a double row, at about eight yards distance from my first fence, they grew presently, and were at first a fine cover to my habitation, and afterwards served for a defence also, as I shall observe in its order.
-- I looked, I thought, like Saul, who complained not only that the Philistines were upon him, but that God had for-saken him; for I did not now take due ways to compose my mind, by crying to God in my distress, and resting upon His providence, as I had done before, for my defence and deliverance; which, if I had done, I had at least been more cheerfully supported under this new surprise, and perhaps carried through it with more resolution.
-- This appeared so clear to me now, that nothing was a greater satisfaction to me than that I had not been suffered to do a thing which I now saw so much rea-son to believe would have been no less a sin than that of wilful murder if I had committed it; and I gave most hum-ble thanks on my knees to God, that He had thus delivered me from blood-guiltiness; beseeching Him to grant me the protection of His providence, that I might not fall into the hands of the barbarians, or that I might not lay my hands upon them, unless I had a more clear call from Heaven to do it, in defence of my own life.
-- that those men were enemies to my life, and would devour me if they could; that it was self-preservation, in the highest degree, to deliver myself from this death of a life, and was acting in my own defence as much as if they were actually assaulting me, and the like; I say though these things argued for it, yet the thoughts of shedding human blood for my deliverance were very terrible to me, and such as I could by no means reconcile myself to for a great while.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "In defence of your protege you can even be saucy."
-- "Perhaps, then, you would bestow it as a reward on that person who wrote the ablest defence of your favourite maxim, that no one can ever be in love more than once in their life your opinion on that point is unchanged, I presume?"
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