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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Of the two hundred warriors who, under his orders, hastened to the defence of the soil, one hundred and fifty were missing on his return.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- How pleased you were with the state of things as we found it, and how glad I was to observe your delight!We both said it was a matter to be proud of; but this clumsy defence that Evgenie mentions, this strange argu-ment CAN, of course, only be an accidental case one in a thousand!'
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I have come from afar, even from Lycia and the banks of the river Xan-thus, where I have left my wife, my infant son, and much wealth to tempt whoever is needy; nevertheless, I head my Lycian soldiers and stand my ground against any who would fight me though I have nothing here for the Achaeans to plunder, while you look on, without even bidding your men stand firm in defence of their wives.
-- So there the poor fellow lay, sleeping a sleep as it were of bronze, killed in the defence of his fellow-citi-zens, far from his wedded wife, of whom he had had no joy though he had given much for her: he had given a hundred-head of cattle down, and had promised later on to give a thousand sheep and goats mixed, from the countless flocks of which he was possessed.
-- Eurypylus sprang upon him, and stripped the armour from his shoulders; but when Alexandrus saw him, he aimed an arrow at him which struck him in the right thigh; the arrow broke, but the point that was left in the wound dragged on the thigh; he drew back, therefore, under cover of his com-rades to save his life, shouting as he did so to the Danaans, 'My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, rally to the defence of Ajax who is being overpowered, and I doubt whether he will come out of the fight alive.
-- I then killed Itymoneus, the valiant son of Hypeirochus, a dweller in Elis, as I was driving in the spoil; he was hit by a dart thrown by my hand while fighting in the front rank in defence of his cows, so he fell and the country people around him were in great fear.
-- They could neither jump it nor cross it, for it had overhanging banks all round upon either side, above which there were the sharp stakes that the sons of the Achaeans had planted so close and strong as a defence against all who would assail it; a horse, therefore, could not get into it and draw his chariot after him, but those who were on foot kept trying their very ut-most.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He wandered into a maudlin defence of the Beast People and of M'ling.
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He stopped a little from the inn, and raising his voice in an odd sing-song, addressed the air in front of him, "Will any kind friend inform a poor blind man, who has lost the precious sight of his eyes in the gracious defence of his native country, England and God bless King George! where or in what part of this country he may now be?"
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I believe in the existence of a mammal power fully organised, belonging to the branch of vertebrata, like the whales, the cachalots, or the dolphins, and furnished with a horn of defence of great penetrating power."
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