It is sabotage. It means to damage or destroy as an act of subversion against an organization or nation.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

In fact this treatise is often described, or maybe even most commonly described, as the Western tradition's greatest argument against censorship.

事实上，这本著作常常被描述为，或是可能广泛地被认为，是英国传统上最伟大的与控制相对立的文章。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

They needn't be thought of as vulgar prejudices, one of which is in fact the "prejudice against prejudice."

它们并不一定是粗俗的偏见，这是对偏见的偏见“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Didn't want to go to school." Bullying is defined as negative behavior repeated over time against the same person.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

And he uses those as discussion materials and Then he's carefully indexed those against things Like the Oxford English edition.

他用这些材料作为讨论材料,然后他仔细把这些材料,像牛津英语词典这样整理起来。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

It seemed as if a heavy body was thrown against the table with a force that pushed against his chest.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

Milton seemed to have decided against marriage as he was making the decision to wed himself to his poetry instead.

那里弥尔顿似乎已经决定不结婚了,因为他已经下定决心要致力于诗歌创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As a congressman and a senator, he had voted against every attempt to give more power to the federal government.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

So I've sort of just spread out what we have as the second row here, graphed against the ionization energy.

所以我将第二行的情况,在这里展了，纵坐标是电离能。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

A passenger in a car threw a grenade that exploded as a crowd demonstrated against the Yemeni government.

VOA: special.2011.02.19

Frost is writing against the Romantic idea that poetry is written in repose, received passively as inspiration.

弗罗斯特不是浪漫主义这一派,浪漫主义是休闲时写的诗歌，被动地作为灵感接受。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In nineteen ninety-nine, Walter Plowright won the World Food Prize as a hero of the fight against rinderpest.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

But even as black Baptist, I could have gone certain black Baptist and run out, because I must struggle against homophobia, and my profound love for gay brothers and lesbian sisters.

作为一个黑人浸信教徒，即使我去黑人浸信会，也会被赶走，因为我必须于恐同症作斗争，以及我对同性恋者们深深的爱。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The study did find improvements in sub-Saharan Africa in the last five years,however, possibly as a result of expanded efforts against AIDS.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

The city of Amsterdam grows up not only as part of this victorious struggle against the Spanish armies.

阿姆斯特丹的成长不仅仅是,反抗西班牙军队胜利的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

President Obama threw out the first pitch as the Washington Nationals opened their season against the Philadelphia Phillies.

VOA: special.2010.04.10

With a plot furnished by Homer, against a setting by Dante, and with characters motivated by Shakespeare, Ulysses is really not as difficult to comprehend as critics like to pretend."

荷马设置的情节，但丁提供的背景，莎士比亚推动的角色，《尤利西斯》真的不像,评论家鼓吹的那样难懂“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

This does not include his time as a soldier in the Civil War or fighting against Indians.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

In either case, they regard him as surreptitiously taking the side of the people against the nobles.

二者都把他看作是秘密地,站在人民的立场上反抗权贵的人。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Critics say that as a result these schools are discriminating against women and admitting less qualified men.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

This the first war that Nato has been in, as a war against a Nato member.

这是北约组织成立以来第一场针对其成员的战争。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

As a result, the study in China found that the cotton plants could also help protect nearby crops against damage by the insects.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The respondents were asked to identify the organization that insures you against losing money in the stock market or as the result of investment fraud.

被调查者被问到是否知晓,在股票市场或者在投资欺诈案中,保护他们的资金不受损失的机构

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I must go with him and protect the nation against him as far as I could.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Well, I'm not going to argue for and against that view-- just wanted to sketch it, so as to understand the arguments that turn on it.

我不会去主张或反对这个观点,只是想简述给你们,以便去理解那些在此基础上的论点

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Therefore,to send troops to a state where federal officers had resigned such as South Carolina would be an act of war against the state.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

It's not pressing against as much pressure.

要小些。

麻省理工公开课 - 热力学与动力学课程节选

They were so thin C it seemed as if they would break against the waves.

VOA: special.2010.03.06

Does that mean you are against democracy as a whole?

那意味着，总的来说，你反对民主吗？

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

So if the other person's choosing Right with probability 0, that's the same as saying they're going to choose Left, and if I chose Middle against Left, I get what?

如果对手选右的概率是0,也就是说对手选左,此时我选中的收益是什么

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选