rock the boat

基本解釋

Sometimes you have to rock the boat, if you want to experience “still” waters.
如果你想體驗(yàn)一下“靜止的”水，有時(shí)候你必須搗搗亂。
The book is likely to sell strongly for years to come, so why rock the boat with a price war?
該書可能在未來(lái)多年都會(huì)銷售強(qiáng)勁，所以為何要讓價(jià)格戰(zhàn)來(lái)?yè)v亂呢？
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They don’t like people who rock the boat, and I could be seen as a loose cannon to some, because I’m questioning a lot of things.
他們不喜歡別人破壞良好的現(xiàn)狀，我可被看作是我行我素不計(jì)后果的人，我對(duì)很多事都提出質(zhì)疑。

While concerns about capital adequacy were hanging over banks, shareholders were reluctant to rock the boat.
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The opposition obviously acted following the "do not rock the boat" philosophy, afraid of further punishment by Chavez.
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Big institutions like the AHA are obviously loath to rock the boat too.
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If you rock the boat, you do or say something that will upset people or cause problems.