Picture something pushing at you — a wave, a crowd, an urge — and you planting your feet and holding your ground so it cannot move you or make you give in.
From the word’s history
'Resist' is from Latin 'resistere' = re- 'back, against' + 'sistere' 'to take a stand, stand firm'. The root picture is standing firm against something — exactly the plant-your-feet-and-hold image.
resist 來自拉丁文 resistere，由 re-（回、對著）加上 sistere（站定、站穩）組成，字面就是「對著某個東西站穩」。這正好是核心畫面：頂住外來的推力、不被推動。
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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
resistverb/ɹɪˈzɪst/
- 1
To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
- Shepard: You could have resisted. You could have fought! Instead, you surrendered. You quit.
- Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drastic needs to happen for him to turn his life around.
- 2
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 […]
- The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.
- 3
To oppose; to refuse to accept.
- 4
obsoleteTo be distasteful to.
- These cates resist me,
resistnoun/ɹɪˈzɪst/
- 1
A protective coating or covering.
- Keeping the ties loose ensures that the yarn can absorb the dye without creating a resist.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。