to go against; to defy
Example Sentences
科技原始创新与核心工业突破犹如逆水行舟不进则退，唯有敢于直面世界前沿难题才能在全球竞争中抢占主动。
kē jì yuán shǐ chuàng xīn yǔ hé xīn gōng yè tū pò yóu rú nì shuǐ xíng zhōu bù jìn zé tuì, wéi yǒu gǎn yú zhí miàn shì jiè qián yán nán tí cái néng zài quán qiú jìng zhēng zhōng qiǎng zhàn zhǔ dòng.
Original innovation in science and technology and breakthroughs in core industries are like sailing against the current, leading to retreat. Only by daring to face the world's cutting-edge problems can we seize the initiative in global competition.
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Related Words & Compounds
to turn back / to reverse
against the stream / adverse current / a countercurrent / fig. reactionary tendency / to go against the trend
adversity / predicament
to go the wrong way / to go against one-way traffic regulation
backwards / reverse direction
to go against the wind / contrary wind / a headwind
unpleasant to hear / grates on the ear (of home truths)
to resign oneself to adversity (idiom); to grin and bear it / to submit meekly to insults, maltreatment, humiliation etc
anticlockwise / counterclockwise
backlighting; light coming from behind the subject (esp. in photography)
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