a look/an act/a gesture of defiance
反抗的神色╱行动╱表示
Nuclear testing was resumed in defiance of an international ban.
尽管国际上明令禁止，核试验又在进行了。
1.挑衅,挑战
2.反抗;蔑视
1.refusal to obey a person or rule
1.Fanny's emotion, which but now had been that of defiance and anger, have turned to dismay and supplication.
芬妮的感情刚才还充满着蔑视和愤怒，现在顿时变成了哀伤和祈求。
2.The verdict's announcement over the U. S. holiday -- a year after the conviction -- appeared to be a calculated act of defiance.
中国在确认薛锋有罪一年后，于美国国庆日假期期间宣布对他的判决，这似乎是一个有计划的挑衅行动。
3.They stood there with an air of defiance, or at least of contention.
两个人都带着挑战，至少是争论的神气，气虎虎地站在那里。
4.In defiance of the State Department they continued to look to Zelaya and his liberal party for Leadership.
他们无视国务院，仍然向往塞拉亚及其自由党的领导。
5.In a country where organized crime operates with fantastic impunity, this sort of ground-level defiance was unusual, if not unique.
在一个有组织犯罪横行霸道而又不可思议地不受惩罚的国家里，这种对毒贩赤裸裸的蔑视，即使不是独一无二的，也至少是非同寻常的。
6.It has come as an act of defiance towards the United States, further stoking regional tensions already high due to its nuclear test in May.
它已经作为一种对美国无视的行为，因为它在五月进行核试验，便进一步引发部分地区高度紧张局势。
7.But on a range of issues Mr Mugabe ensures that his prime minister is often kept out of the loop, in blatant defiance of the GPA.
但是在很多事情上，穆加贝先生是把他的总理留在局外的，例如明目张胆挑衅《全球政治协定》。
8.Subsequently he made this the title of his own movie, no doubt as a further gesture of anti-European defiance.
再后来，他竟以此作为自己的电影的名字。毫无疑问，这是他蔑视欧洲人的进一步表现。
9.All this was good preparation for the defiance she was to show after 1939, when the Germans invaded.
所有这一切都为她在1939年之后德国入侵时显示的桀骜不驯的性格打好了基础。
10.Although I kept silent, she would see a kind of protest in my cold eyes, and a spirit of defiance, and a sort of pressure for her.
虽然我只能坚持沉默，但她完全能从我那一双冰冷的眼睛里感到一种反抗，一种永不屈服的精神和带给她的一种无形的压力。