defeat是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. 击败n. 失败，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：
-- Kai-Koumou was the only one of all the chiefs that obeyed the call of William Thompson, who had returned to the lake district, and he was the first to announce to his tribe the defeat of the national insurrection, beaten on the plains of the lower Waikato.
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sons of the Achaeans would now have taken Troy by the hands of Patroclus, for his spear flew in all directions, had not Phoebus Apollo taken his stand upon the wall to defeat his purpose and to aid the Trojans.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, Heaven defeat the fancy of Lucie Darnay, and keep these feet far out of her life!For, they are headlong, mad, and dangerous; and in the years so long after the breaking of the cask at Defarge's wine-shop door, they are not easily purified when once stained red.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This meant the defeat of Alexey Alexandrovitch.
-- But now, from a feeling readily comprehensible to officials--that hatred felt by one who has suffered a defeat in the service for one who has received a promotion, he could not endure him.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The defeat at Winnemac had done something to his courage.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I always tried my best to beat Strickland, because he was a player who despised the opponent he vanquished; his exultation in victory made defeat more difficult to bear.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Being, by that time, rathertired of this kind of life, and having received new provocationfrom the butcher, I throw the flower away, go out with the butcher,and gloriously defeat him.
-- After that, Iobserved that Mr. Gulpidge and Mr. Henry Spiker, who hadhitherto been very distant, entered into a defensive alliance againstus, the common enemy, and exchanged a mysterious dialogueacross the table for our defeat and overthrow.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Eltons were still talking of a vis-it from the Sucklings, and of the use to be made of their barouche-landau; and Jane Fairfax was still at her grand-mother's; and as the return of the Campbells from Ireland was again delayed, and August, instead of Midsummer, fixed for it, she was likely to remain there full two months longer, provided at least she were able to defeat Mrs. Elton's activity in her service, and save herself from being hurried into a delightful situation against her will.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why, that requires not this preparation; ye need not have come thus far and dragged your captain to the shame of a defeat merely to prove yourselves cowards.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She lay in thesilvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasantthat defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate.
-- Stonewall Jackson's triumphs in the Valley and the defeat of the Yankees in the Seven Days' Battle around Richmondshowed that clearly.
-- But you have asked me what was in my heart, andthe fear of defeat is there.
-- Their capture would paralyze the North and more than cancel off the defeat on theMississippi.
-- CHAPTER XV THE ARMY, driven back into Virginia, went into winter quarters on the Rapidan a tired, depleted army sincethe defeat at Gettysburg and as the Christmas season approached, Ashley came home on furlough.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And here, when he had been thinking of all kinds of graceful and insinuating approaches, and meditating on the fearful retaliation which was slowly working against Sophy Wackles here were Nell, the old man, and all the money gone, melted away, decamped he knew not whither, as if with a fore-knowledge of the scheme and a resolution to defeat it in the very outset, before a step was taken.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'The defeat may now be considered perfectly accomplished.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Defeat at the outset would probably upset the whole journey!
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Poor Jo tried desperately to be good, but her bosom enemy was always ready to flame up and defeat her, and it took years of patient effort to subdue it.
-- Laurie threw up his hat, then remembered that it wouldn't do to exult over the defeat of his guests, and stopped in the middle of the cheer to whisper to his friend, 'Good for you, Jo!He did cheat, I saw him.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After this I had been telling him how the devil was God's enemy in the hearts of men, and used all his mal-ice and skill to defeat the good designs of Providence, and to ruin the kingdom of Christ in the world, and the like.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So severe a defeat told sadly upon her nerves.
-- Carrie was too worn by defeat not to feel that it was considerable.
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