They would cross the river a little downstream, turn and attack.

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Because in doing that, Python would then have a value that it could pass on into some other part of a computation, and if it wasn't what I wanted, I might be a long ways downstream in the computation before I actually hit some result that makes no sense.

因为如果这样做的话，Python会将,输入的值传递到下面的,一些运算中去，如果这个值的类型不是我想要的，我可能会在得到,一个毫无意义的结果之前,经历一个很长时间的,计算过程。

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Heavy rains and flooding in states up river in the past week, are exerting enormous pressure downstream.

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"I know that issue is downstream, if we wind up going downstream, " Klein said during closing arguments.

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Downstream earnings have snapped back so far that I prefer pure play oil producers like Apache with no downstream cyclical vulnerability.

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Other daredevils have tried their luck walking over Niagara, but farther downstream and not since 1896.

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