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逆水行舟，不进则退

nì shuǐ xíng zhōu , bù jìn zé tuì · ni shui xing zhou , bu jin ze tui

Traditional 逆水行舟，不進則退

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like rowing a boat upstream, if you stop moving forward you fall back (idiom)

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