Withstand

(prep.) To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments.

整理:维维安

• Human nature could not withstand these bewildering temptations. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Nothing could withstand them in the fever of battle lust which enthralled them. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Few have been able to withstand the seeming evidence of this argument; and yet nothing in the world is more easy than to refute it. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Dangerous boiler explosions have occurred because the boiler walls were not strong enough to withstand the pressure of the steam (which is water in the form of gas). 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Such a Corsican wretch as that withstand the armies of Europe and the genius of the immortal Wellington! 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The latter and other acid processes were not successful until cement-lined digesters were invented to withstand their corroding action. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Prior to the century safes were not constructed to withstand the test of intense heat. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• To have resisted such attractions, to have withstood such tenderness! 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• His regiment had performed prodigies of courage, and had withstood for a while the onset of the whole French army. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There was a solemnity--a dignity--in Mr. Pickwick's manner, not to be withstood. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It's a withstanding of injustice, past, present, or to come. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.

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