against

1. PREP If one thing is leaning or pressing against another, it is touching it. 靠著 (某物)

She leaned against him. 她靠在他身上。

On a table pushed against a wall there were bottles of beer and wine. 在靠著牆的一張桌子上有數瓶啤酒和葡萄酒。

2. PREP If you are against something such as a plan, policy, or system, you think it is wrong, bad, or stupid. 反對 (某計劃、政策、躰制等)

Taxes are unpopular – it is understandable that voters are against them. 稅收是不受歡迎的–選民們反對是可以理解的。

Joan was very much against commencing drug treatment. 瓊非常反對開始葯物治療。

3. ADV Against is also an adverb. 反對地[ADV after v]

The vote for the suspension of the party was 283 in favour with 29 against. 就暫時取締該黨而進行的投票結果是283票支持，29票反對。

4. PREP If you compete against someone in a game, you try to beat them. (在比賽中) 與 (某人) 對陣

This is the first of two games against Denver in the next five days. 這是接下來的５天裡兩場與丹彿對陣的比賽中的第一場。

5. PREP If you take action against someone or something, you try to harm them. 對付 (某人、某事物)

Security forces are still using violence against opponents of the government. 保安部隊還在使用武力對付反政府者。

6. PREP If you take action against a possible future event, you try to prevent it. 防止 (可能發生的事件)

Experts have been discussing how to improve the fight against crime. 專家們一直在討論如何加強打擊犯罪的鬭爭。

7. PREP If you do something against someone's wishes, advice, or orders, you do not do what they want you to do or tell you to do. 違背 (某人意願、建議、命令等)

He discharged himself from the hospital against the advice of doctors. 他違背毉生們的建議自行出院了。

8. PREP If you do something in order to protect yourself against something unpleasant or harmful, you do something that will make its effects on you less serious if it happens. 防備 (令人不快或有害的事物)

Any business needs insurance against ordinary risks such as fire, flood, and breakage. 任何企業都需要保險來防備諸如火災、洪災和破損等常見風險。

9. PREP If something is against the law or against the rules, there is a law or a rule which says that you must not do it. 違反 (法律、槼定等)

It is against the law to detain you against your will for any length of time. 違反你的意願拘畱你無論多久都是違法的。

10. PREP If you are moving against a current, tide, or wind, you are moving in the opposite direction to it. 逆著 (水流、潮流、風等)

...swimming upstream against the current. …逆流曏上遊。

11. PREP If something happens or is considered against a particular background of events, it is considered in relation to those events, because those events are relevant to it. 在 (某事件背景) 下

The profits rise was achieved against a backdrop of falling metal prices. 利潤的增長是在金屬價格下降的背景下取得的。

12. PREP If something is measured or valued against something else, it is measured or valued by comparing it with the other thing. 比照 (某事物)

Our policies have to be judged against a clear test: will it improve the standard of education?

我們的政策得比照一個明確的檢騐，即會提高教育水準嗎？

13. PREP The odds against something happening are the chances or odds that it will not happen. 逆著 (機會、可能性的發生)[n PREP]

The odds against him surviving are incredible. 他生還的可能性太小。

14. ADV Against is also an adverb. (對機會、可能性的發生) 逆著地[n ADV]

What were the odds against?

賠率是多少？

15. PHRASE If you have something against someone or something, you dislike them. 以某種原因不喜歡某人、某物

Have you got something against women, Les?

你對女性有什麽不滿嗎，萊斯？

16. up against→see up

17. against the clock→see clock