他不顾我的指示而继续做这项工作。

He did the work in disregard of my instructions.

youdao

此决定看上去是为保全州长面子以继续任职而做的一个妥协。

The decision appears to be a face-saving compromise which will allow the governor to remain in office.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

你周围的人希望你可以通过改变自己来迎合他们，但他们却不会为你而做任何改变，他们只是继续着他们自己的生活方式，这肯定是行不通的。

Other people want you to change your opinion to suit them but they won't change to suit you. They just go on living their lives.

youdao

I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

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