defend

• It was perhaps on this account that in defending them she was majestic rather than agile .
  也许正是由于这个原因，她在进行自卫时总是从容大方，而不流于油滑。
• Many americans tended to judge the government we were defending by our own constitutional practices .
  许多美国人倾向于按我们自己的宪法程序来判断我们所维护的政府。
• I will leave my defense to you; it's a charge that a man has to stoop to defend himself from .
  那我就让你为我辩护吧。面对这样的控诉，一个男人必须弯腰屈膝为自己辩护。
• Had judith encouraged him, he would not have hesitated about remaining to defend her and her sister .
  要是朱蒂丝给过他一些希望，他也会毫不犹豫地留下来保护她们姐妹的。
• "well," thomas said, defending the elegance of his clientele, "we don't exactly cater to paupers" .
  “得啦”，托马斯为维护他的客人的体面说，“我们也并不是只接待穷人”。
• The individual develops behavioural means to defend himself from the enticements to establish relations with others .
  个人会发展一些行为方法以使自己不受到与他人建立关系的诱惑。
• I passionately defended the decision; all the arguments we had so endlessly rehearsed for days were still valid .
  我热烈地维护原来的决定，几天来我们孜孜不倦地重复的理由仍然有效。
• If the defendant cannot afford legal counsel, the state must provide an attorney to defend him at public expense .
  如果被告不能负担辨护律师的费用，州就必须用公费委任一位律师替他辩护。