Persevering in prayer is like rowing a boat upstream… .

坚定持续地祷告就像逆水行舟。

Ethiopia is working on a huge dam to contain water upstream.

埃塞俄比亚正在修建一座巨型大坝，以控制上游的水。

You're kind of swimming upstream with those.

你说的这些更不现实。

It may have caught on fire or sank 50 miles upstream and floated here during floods.

这东西之前可能被火烧过，可能在50英里的上游沉没，然后在洪涝期漂到了这里。

Dams were built and water is pumped upstream.

水坝已经建成，水被抽到上游。

Now, upstream, the water is flowing pretty slowly.

在上游，河水的流速比较慢。

The current is too strong to return upstream.

水流太急很难逆流而返。

" Two miles upstream, " said Tom. " A league at most" .

" 往上游走两里地，" 汤姆说，" 顶多一里格。"

So, officials said the pollution was likely coming from wastewater upstream.

所以，官员们表示，污染可能来自上游的废水。

Those that make it upstream develop into opaque elvers.

那些成功抵达上游的鱼变成了不透明的鳗鱼。