医生劝他别抽烟，可是他却反其道而行之。
The doctor advise he shouldn stop smoking, but he didn't do as requested.
他经常向朋友们征求意见，然后却反其道而行之。
He often asks the advice of his friends and then does the opposite of what they have suggested.
尽管这一领域的大部分研究者都把重点放在了少数族群上，但考夫曼却反其道而行之：他研究的是多数族群的行为，特别是美国和英国的白人。
While most researchers in that field focus on ethnic minorities, Kaufmann does the opposite: he studies the behavior of ethnic majorities, particularly whites in the United States and Britain.
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