in the teeth of

基本解释

The euro crisis is forcing Greece, Portugal and Spain to push through huge reforms in the teeth of popular protest.
歐元危機正在迫使希臘、葡萄牙、西班牙不顧普遍的反對而進行大刀濶斧的改革。
Here Mr Zapatero threw caution to the winds in his first term, drawing up a new statute for the Catalans and negotiating with ETA, the violent Basque separatist group, in the teeth of PP opposition.
薩帕特羅在其上一個任期內麪對人民黨的反對，不顧一切地爲加泰羅尼亞地區頒佈了新的條例以及與埃塔（一個支持巴斯尅獨立的暴力組織）進行磋商。
In the teeth of furious opposition from operators, the European Commission is close to imposing wholesale and retail price-caps on roaming calls.
歐洲委員會不顧運營商的強烈反對，行將對漫遊電話施行批量和零售價格上限。

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