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Section 5 of the FTC Act empowers the FTC to initiate enforcement action against unfair or deceptive acts, meaning the FTC can only act after the fact if a company’s privacy practices are misleading or cause unjustified consumer harm.

《联邦贸易委员会法》第5条授权联邦贸易委员会对不公平或欺骗性行为采取执法行动，这意味着只有当一家公司的隐私做法具有误导性或对消费者造成不当损害时，联邦贸易委员会才能事后采取行动。

The State Legislature recently voted against a bill that would’ve made it illegal for towns to create legislation restricting short-term rentals.

该州议会最近投票否决了一项法案，该法案若获通过，城镇制定限制短期租赁的法规就将成为违法行为。

The premise was that the common law of contract lacked sufficient safeguards for workers against arbitrary conduct by management.

其前提是，普通法中的合同法缺乏足够的保障措施来保护工人免受管理层的专断行为侵害。

against

反对

The commission argued that other agencies would protect against anti-competitive behavior, such as a broadband-providing conglomerate like AT&T favoring its own video-streaming service at the expense of Netflix and Apple TV.

该委员会辩称，其他机构会防范反竞争行为，比如像AT&T这样提供宽带服务的企业集团偏袒自家的视频流媒体服务，而牺牲奈飞和苹果电视的利益。

It protects against unfair competition.

它防范不正当竞争。

But after the war, great social and political changes arising out of the successful war against Fascism created a growing demand in European and American economies for increasing numbers of graduates with more than a secondary school education.

但战后，反法西斯战争胜利所带来的巨大社会和政治变革，使欧美经济体对受过中等以上教育的毕业生的需求日益增长。

This is not an argument against target-setting.

这并不是反对设定目标的论点。

But it has already sparked significant controversy, with the United States trade representative opening an investigation into whether the tax discriminates against American companies, which in turn could lead to trade sanctions against France.

但它已经引发了重大争议，美国贸易代表已就该税是否歧视美国公司展开调查，而这反过来可能导致对法国的贸易制裁。

But it has already sparked significant controversy, with the United States trade representative opening an investigation into whether the tax discriminates against American companies, which in turn could lead to trade sanctions against France.

但它已经引发了重大争议，美国贸易代表已就该税是否歧视美国公司展开调查，而这反过来可能导致对法国的贸易制裁。

may trigger countermeasures against France.

可能引发针对法国的反制措施。

They are biased against car manufacturers.

它们对汽车制造商有偏见。

Forests give us shade, quiet and one of the harder challenges in the fight against climate change.

森林给我们带来了树荫、宁静，也带来了应对气候变化斗争中一项较为艰巨的挑战。

Discrimination against foreign workers in the U.S.

美国对外国工人的歧视。

A Counteraction Against the Over-tweeting Trend

对过度发推趋势的抵制

It is against that background that the information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has issued her damning verdict against the Royal Free hospital trust under the NHS, which handed over to DeepMind the records of 1.6 million patients in 2015 on the basis of a vague agreement which took far too little account of the patients’ rights and their expectations of privacy.

正是在这样的背景下，信息专员伊丽莎白·德纳姆对NHS下属的皇家自由医院信托作出了措辞严厉的裁决。该信托在2015年依据一份含糊的协议将160万名患者的记录交给了DeepMind，而这份协议对患者的权利及其对隐私的期望考虑得太少了。

The court’s ruling is a step forward in the struggle against both corruption and official favoritism.

法院的这一裁决是在反腐败和反官员偏袒斗争中向前迈出的一步。

against

反对

highlights his firm stand against lobby pressure.

突显了他反对游说压力的坚定立场。

reveals a strong prejudice against urban areas.

显示出对城市地区的强烈偏见。

The Spanish case provides arguments both for and against monarchy.

西班牙的情况为支持和反对君主制双方都提供了论据。

biased against classical liberal ideas.

对古典自由主义思想抱有偏见。

Teachers, employers, and health professionals have been shown to harbor biases against the obese.

研究表明，教师、雇主和医疗专业人员都对肥胖者怀有偏见。

against

反对

designed against human creativity.

在设计上压制人的创造力。

against

反对；阻碍

fight against

与……斗争

Rosenberg, the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, offers a host of examples of the social cure in action: In South Carolina, a state-sponsored antismoking program called Rage Against the Haze sets out to make cigarettes uncool.

普利策奖得主罗森伯格列举了大量“社会疗法”付诸实践的例子：在南卡罗来纳州，一个名为“向烟雾宣战”的州政府资助的禁烟项目致力于让吸烟显得不酷。

Rage Against the Haze failed once state funding was cut.

州政府的资金一被削减，“向烟雾宣战”项目就失败了。

Enraged by Entergy's behavior, the Vermont Senate voted 26 to 4 last year against allowing an extension.

佛蒙特州参议院被安特吉公司的行为激怒，去年以26票对4票否决了延期。

Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers' unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.

尽管有大量证据表明教师素质是最重要的变量，教师工会却一直反对辞退差教师、提拔好教师。

In Wisconsin the unions have rallied thousands of supporters against Scott Walker, the hardline Republican governor.

在威斯康星州，工会召集了数千名支持者反对强硬派共和党州长斯科特·沃克。

Labor Party has long been fighting against public-sector unions.

工党长期以来一直在与公共部门工会作斗争。

against

对抗

Critics make three main arguments against gene patents: a gene is a product of nature, so it may not be patented; gene patents suppress innovation rather than reward it; and patents’ monopolies restrict access to genetic tests such as Myriad’s.

批评者反对基因专利的主要理由有三：基因是自然的产物，因此不能申请专利；基因专利压制而非奖励创新；专利垄断限制了人们获得像麦利亚德公司那样的基因检测。

Those who are against gene patents believe that ____

反对基因专利的人认为____

struggle against each other.

相互争斗。

The food industry will be alarmed that such senior doctors back such radical moves, especially the call to use some of the tough tactics that have been deployed against smoking over the last decade.

如此资深的医生支持如此激进的举措，尤其是呼吁采用过去十年来用于控烟的一些强硬手段，这将令食品行业感到不安。

goes against human nature.

违背人性。

rarely goes against state laws

很少与州法律相抵触

often run against the current political system.

常常与现行政治制度背道而驰。