Someone who swims against the tide refuses to do what everyone else is doing.

不随大流的人拒绝随波逐流。

Mr Yglesias is swimming against the tide, and knows it.

伊格莱西亚斯深知自己是在逆水行舟。

Ocean tides are strong. Swimming against the tide is not advisable. It can make you tired and you could drown.

潮汐很强劲，逆流而行是不可取的，逆流会让你疲惫不堪，你会溺水的。

As an expression, it means to go against popular thought or opinion. Great leaders and scientists often swim against the tide.

作为短语，它的意思是反对受欢迎的思想或者意见。伟大的领袖或者科学家通常都不会随波逐流。

In the way he thinks about work, decision-making and the role of the CEO, Mr Musk is swimming against the tide.

在工作、决策和首席执行官的职责这些方面，马斯克的思维方式与当下的趋势背道而驰。

James asks if Charlotte is swimming against the tide of modern life. If you're swimming against the tide, you're doing the opposite of what most people are doing.

詹姆斯问夏洛特是否正在逆现代生活的潮流而行。如果你逆流而上，你所做的就是与大多数人所做的相反。

If things are geared around a certain activity or purpose, they're organised to support it. The idiom to swim against the tide means to not follow what most people are doing.

如果事情是围绕某个活动或目的进行的，那么它们就会被组织起来支持它。swim against the tide这个俚语的意思是不追随大多数人正在做的事情。

Although evidence suggests that ancient Mediterranean people dived eagerly into temple pleasure pools, lakes and the sea, other cultures have swum against the tide – another swimming idiom there, Neil - meaning 'not to follow what everyone else is doing'.

尽管有证据表明，古代地中海人热衷于潜入庙宇的游乐池、湖泊和大海中，但其他文化的人却不随大流——这是另一个关于游泳的习语，尼尔，意思是" 不随波逐流" 。