It's like a boat sailing against the current. It must forge ahead or it will be driven back.

犹如逆水行舟，不进则退。

He then sent his son-in-law, with a new and mighty fleet, to sail against Athens.

后来他派他的女婿率领一支新的强大的舰队去进攻雅典。

" Sometimes a party must sail against the wind, " he said.

“有时一个派对必须逆风航行，”他说。

When there was wind, they sailed the boat upriver against the Missouri's currents.

刮风时，他们逆着密苏里河逆流而上。

" He hasn't sailed against us, " Tyrion managed. " He's laid siege to Storm's End. Renly is riding to meet him."

" 他不来攻打我们，" 提利昂努力说道，" 反而去围攻风息堡。蓝礼正飞骑赶去与他交战。"

But lubbers we are none, and could sail a ship now against any man in the North seas, though we don't hold with this new-fangled steam.

但我们不是笨蛋，现在可以在北海航行一艘船对抗任何人，尽管我们不接受这种新发明的蒸汽。

All this presupposes one essential detail, says Atholl Anderson, professor of prehistory at the Australian National University: the Lapita had mastered the advanced art of sailing against the wind.

澳大利亚国立大学史前史学教授阿瑟尔·安德森 (Atholl Anderson) 说，所有这一切都以一个基本细节为前提：拉皮塔人掌握了逆风航行的先进艺术。

In the Atlantic both the ocean currents and the wind move east toward Europe Phoenician sailboats traveling west to the Azores would have had to sail against the strong wind and against the flow of the ocean water.

在大西洋，洋流和风向东流向欧洲，腓尼基帆船向西航行至亚速尔群岛，必须顶着强风和海水流动。