| 词组 | go against |
| 释义 | go against 1. go against sth if something goes against an idea, principle, or rule, it seems wrong or very different from it, or breaks that rule: ▪ Her parents didn't want her to get a divorce. It went against their religious beliefs. ▪ Einstein's theory went against all the accepted views about how the universe worked. ▪ The Russians claimed that intervening in Kosovo went against the principle of respecting national sovereignty. it goes against the grain (=used to say that something is very different from what you believe or think you should do, and you do not want to do it) ▪ It goes against the grain to tell a complete stranger everything about your private life. 2. go against sth/sb to not do what someone has asked or advised you to do, or to do something different to it go against sb's advice/wishes/orders etc ▪ He went against his doctor's advice and started work the following week. go against sb ▪ She never expected her mother to go against her father like that. ■ SIMILAR TO: ignore 3. go against sb if a court case, decision, vote, result etc goes against you, you lose or you do not get the result that you want: ▪ Our lawyer had warned us that the case might go against us. ▪ De Gaulle had made it clear that he would resign if the vote went against him. things go against you spoken (=used to say that events happen in a way that is bad or unsuccessful for you) ▪ By the end of the 1980s, things started to go against us, and we lost a lot of money. |
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