resist是什么意思？

Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

Neither children nor adults could resist the temptation of a free toy.

Its temptation is too strong for people to resist.

Few people are able to resist alcohol's temptations

America will remain the best place on earth to do business, so long as Barack Obama and the Democrats in Congress resist the temptation to interfere too much, and so long as organised labour does not overplay its hand.

Although many other big firms resisted the temptation to over-borrow, developers borrowed heavily and built bigger and fancier hotels as if the whole world were planning a holiday in Las Vegas.

Few people can resist the temptation of money.

There're steps we can take that would make some difference, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel is trying some of them—yet the union is resisting.

With older populations, they resist change.

He can't resist the temptation of TV either.

For a follow-up analysis, he found that people whose neural reward centres were more active when they won money were also more likely to be among the group of liars一suggesting that lying may have to do with the inability to resist temptation.

Seeing others enjoy a smoke, or sneak a quick glance, is too tempting to resist and soon everyone is doing it.