0 without taking any notice of or being influenced by; not prevented by -- 不管;尽管;无论
I still enjoyed the week despite the weather. 尽管天气不好,这一周我过得还是很愉快的。
Despite repeated assurances that the product is safe, many people have stopped buying it. 尽管已反复保证了该产品的安全性,很多人还是不再购买。
[ + -ing verb ] He managed to eat a big lunch despite having eaten an enormous breakfast. 尽管早餐吃了很多,他午饭还是大吃了一顿。
He laughed despite himself. 他忍不住笑了起来。
She took the money from her mother's purse, despite herself. 她忍不住从母亲的钱包里拿了钱。
The pop festival passed off peacefully, despite the fears of local residents.
The overall situation is good, despite a few minor problems.
Despite this, there are striking analogies between the philosophical responses to the problem of underdetermination in the two contexts.
Despite all of this ethnolinguistic variety, the legal process of obtaining a protective order operates, for the most part, quite systematically.
Despite numerous attempts to estimate the level of returns to scale in the data, there is no broad agreement in the literature on its value.