To rock the boat的意思|示意

The idea that teens need to be encouraged to slap the clown or rock the little man in the boat is bizarre.

诸如青少年需要鼓励去侮辱粗人，或者向小船里的小孩扔石块的主意很不靠谱。

Indeed, the lifetime employment system makes bosses loth to rock the boat (and means they have few other job options if they do).

终生雇佣制的确让众管理者不愿惹是生非(如果真惹事了的话，终生雇佣制度会让他们无太多机会跳槽)。

To them, he symbolized something very different: a youthful challenger who was crushed by a reactionary status quo. His arrest, they said, was a warning to all of them not to rock the boat.

对年轻人而言，他代表着很大差异的东西：一个敢于挑战的年轻人被保守的现状所扼杀，他们表示，他的被捕是告诫他们所有人不要破坏现状。

Giving favors, gifts, compliments, early protestations of love, and being afraid to rock the boat isn't really giving because something is expected in return.

给予支持、礼物、赞美，过早表明爱意，而不敢打破现状不是真的给予，因为他们希望得到回报(译者注：也就是女人的爱，他们的行为是有企图的)。

It's a common occurrence to see your partner falling asleep time and again while you're in the mood to rock the boat.

在你有心跟对方搞个小恶作剧时，你会经常看到他睡着了。

These comments make me uncomfortable, but nobody else seems to mind and I don't want to rock the boat.

这些话让我感到不舒服，但是别人似乎都不介意；我“不想找麻烦“。