When she attempted to cut his nails he resisted.

当她试图给他剪指甲时，他反抗了。

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With an effort of will he resisted the temptation.

他凭自己的意志顶住了这一诱惑。

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And he resisted Russian pressure to recognise the Georgian enclaves of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

这里楼主可以改进下：同时他顶住了来自俄罗斯的压力，承认格鲁吉亚对南奥塞梯和阿布哈兹拥有主权。这样是否更贴切原文？

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Faulkner resisted. He said,if you grow a vegetable, you can cut it to look like something else, but it will be dead.

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Gunmen fatally shot her husband, David Tebbutt, when he resisted, according to Kenyan police.

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He resisted just enough to let us know there was some humanity left in the man.

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He resisted calls to have the government take controlling stakes in Citigroup and Bank of America.

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