逆水 nìshuǐ
nìshuǐ
adjective
against the current; upstream
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '逆水')
Contained in
- 逆水行舟，不进则退(逆水行舟，不進則退) like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back
- 学如逆水行舟，不进则退(學如逆水行舟，不進則退) Study is like rowing upstream: no advance is to drop back
- 逆水行舟 a boat going against the current; you must work harder
Word is mentioned most frequently in
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- 卷六十五 志第十七上: 河渠二 Volume 65 Treatises 18: Rivers and Canals 2 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 1
- 卷五十四 列傳第四十八 諸夷 Volume 54: Various Barbarians Book of Liang 梁書 — count: 1
- 《梁惠王章句下》 Commentary on Liang Hui Wang II Commentaries on the Four Books by Zhu Xi 朱熹四書章句集注 — count: 1
- 卷九十一 志第四十四 河渠一 Volume 91 Treatises 44: Rivers and Canals 1 History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
- 卷六十四 志第十六: 河渠一 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Rivers and Canals 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 1
- 卷三百八十一 列傳第一百四十 范如圭 吳表臣 王居正 晏敦復 黃龜年 程瑀 張闡 洪擬 趙逵 Volume 381 Biographies 140: Fan Rugui, Wu Biaochen, Wang Juzheng, Yan Dunfu, Huang Guinian, Cheng Yu, Zhang Chan, Hong Ni, Zhao Kui History of Song 宋史 — count: 1
- 卷九十三 志第四十二: 食貨一 Volume 93 Treatises 46: Finance and Economics 1 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 1
- 卷七十八 列傳第六十八 夷貊上 Volume 78 Biographies 68: Non-Han Peoples 1 History of the Southern Dynasties 南史 — count: 1
- 卷91 術藝:晁崇 張淵 殷紹 王早 耿玄 劉靈助 江式等 Volume 91: The Arts - Chao Chong, Zhang Yuan, Yin Shao, Wang Zao, Geng Xuan, Liu Lingzhu, Jiang Shi, and others Book of Wei 魏書 — count: 1
- 卷二十七中之下 五行志 Volume 27c: Treatise on the Five Elements 3 Book of Han 漢書 — count: 1
Collocations
- 阻逆水 (阻逆水) 阻逆水性 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷六十四 志第十六: 河渠一 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Rivers and Canals 1 — count: 2
- 逆水性 (逆水性) 阻逆水性 — History of Yuan 元史, 卷六十四 志第十六: 河渠一 Volume 64 Treatises 17: Rivers and Canals 1 — count: 2
- 逆水行 (逆水行) 逆水行七千里乃至焉 — Book of Liang 梁書, 卷五十四 列傳第四十八 諸夷 Volume 54: Various Barbarians — count: 2