up in arms困难

Despite these factors, many social scientists seem reluctant to tackle such problems. And in Europe, some are up in arms over a proposal to drop a specific funding category for social-science research and to integrate it within cross-cutting topics of sustainable development.

尽管存在这些因素，许多社会科学家似乎仍不愿着手解决这类问题。而在欧洲，一些人对一项提案表示强烈抗议，该提案要求取消社会科学研究的专门资助类别，将其并入可持续发展的跨领域课题之中。