steer a courseBEHAVEto choose a particular way of doing something 选择某种做法,采用某种方式 Managers were allowed to steer their own course. 经理可以自行决断。
The government chose to steer a middle course between the two strategies (=chose a strategy that was not extreme). 政府在这两种策略之间选择走折中路线。
steer a course• It was not easy to steer a course between absolute pacifism and revolutionary violence.• It is hard for doctors to steer a course between everyone's different requirements.
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