| 词组 | defend |
| 释义 | defend Defend may be followed by against or from; the distinction made in Raub 1897—"Defend others from, ourselves against"—is not necessarily observed in contemporary use: • ... a part of Schleswig Holstein where strong dikes defend the land against the furor of winter storms — Samuel Van Valkenburg & Ellsworth Huntington, Europe, 1935 • The antitrust laws must constantly defend the ideal of industrial democracy against all sorts of pressures —Thurman W. Arnold, The Bottlenecks of Business, 1940 • ... watching him defend his high and rigid standards against the endless assault our times mount against them —Richard Schickel, Harper's, March 1971 • Powell could not defend himself from some sympathy for that thick, bald man —Joseph Conrad, Chance, 1913 • ... a floor of double boards to defend the old woman's bones from the dampness —Ellen Glasgow, Vein of Iron, 1935 • The playwright defended Come Back, Little Sheba from the criticism that it was depressing —Current Biography, June 1953 |
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