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学如逆水行舟，不进则退
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Definitions
- 1. study is like rowing upstream – if you don't keep pushing forward, you fall behind
Child Words of 学如逆水行舟，不进则退
like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)
(literary) (conjunction used to express contrast with a previous clause) but; then
row
to go forward
as
contrary
no; not so
to walk
lit. navigating a boat against the current (idiom)
against the current
to retreat; to withdraw
boat
water
to learn