against nature

基本解释

Similarly, when anesthesia during childbirth came into use, bioconservatives lamented that it ran against nature.
同样的，麻醉剂被用于分娩时，保守主义者悲叹那是违反自然规律的。
Chinese geologists are pitting their knowledge, skill and modern technical equipment against nature in an effort to get more oil for their country.
为了替祖国获得更多的石油，中国地质学家以自己的知识、技能以及现代的技术设备与自然进行斗争。
We have gone working against nature for too long.
我们做违背大自然的事已经太久了。

This character fights against the forces of nature to try to realize his dream of building a performance center in Iquitos,Peru.
You say to yourself, "Ah ha! There is an example of somebody taking language by the scruff of the neck and changing it as an individual, exerting an individual will over against the conventional nature of language."
你也许会想，这不就是一个,凭个人力量改变语言,的活生生的例子吗,它的确改变了语言的惯例“
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And the fact that relations in the state of nature it's synonymous with making it a condition of war, of "all against all," in his famous formulation.
自然状态中的关系对他来说,与战争中抗一切人的状态同义，他在著名的构想中如是说。
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It is my feeling that when we work against nature, we only end up hurting ourselves.
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