stand out against something phrasal verbphr v British EnglishBrE FIGHT FOR OR AGAINST somethingto be strongly opposed to an idea, plan etc 坚决[强烈]反对 We must stand out against bigotry. 我们必须坚决反对顽固的偏见。
stand out against • Masaryk was an eminent liberal scholar who stood out against the Catholic-led anti-semitic hysteria of the 1890s.• The only paper which stood out against the tide was the Communist Party's Morning Star.• Only the finance sector stood out against this trend with some 30,000 new jobs created over the same period.
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