Tuesday, 20 June 2017

bucking

VERB 抵抗；抵制；反抗

If you buck the trend, you obtain different results from others in the same area. If you buck the system, you get what you want by breaking or ignoring the rules.

While other newspapers are losing circulation, we are bucking the trend...
当其他报纸的发行量越来越少时，我们却逆势而进

Our EU applications are up 17.7% bucking the national trend which is a downturn by 6%.
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Thursday, 15 June 2017

snoop 探听，窥探，管闲事

Governments have been known to snoop on innocent citizens.
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