to resist

• 竭力抗拒

  resist with all one's energy

• 抗拒批评

  defy criticism

• 坦白从宽，抗拒从严

  be lenient to those who confess and harsh to those who resist

• 不可抗拒的趋势

  irresistible trend

• 历史潮流不可抗拒。

  One cannot resist the tide of history.

• 历史的辩证法是不可抗拒的。

  One cannot resist the dialectics of history.