English Dictionary

resist

/ɹɪˈzɪst/

verb

(transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of. / (transitive) To withstand the actions of. / (intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept. / (transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.

I resist the temptation to eat junk food.

意味（1）

(transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.

Shepard: You could have resisted. You could have fought! Instead, you surrendered. You quit.

意味（2）

(transitive) To withstand the actions of.

At length, one night, when the company by ſome accident broke up much ſooner than ordinary, ſo that the candles were not half burnt out, ſhe was not able to reſiſt the temptation, but reſolved to have them ſome way or other. Accordingly, as ſoon as the hurry was over, and the ſervants, as ſhe thought, all gone to ſleep, ſhe ſtole out of her bed, and went down ſtairs, naked to her ſhift as ſhe was, with a deſign to ſteal them […]

意味（3）

(intransitive) To oppose; to refuse to accept.

意味（4）

(transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.

These cates resist me,