Benevolent responsibility to let him go upstream.

仁者的责任让他知难而上。

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We'll go to the upstream side of that big rock.

我们将去那块大岩石的上游一侧。

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With a continuous current, like in a river, you have to aim upstream of your target. Some of your effort will go into getting you closer to the finish and some will go into fighting the current.

在一个连续不断的水流中，比如在河水中，你得逆流瞄准你的目标：你的力气有些是花费在向着终点，有些力气是花费在对抗水流的。

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Winston Price, president-elect of the National Medical Association, an African-American physicians group, said that the current system--where patients might go to the doctor but then cannot afford drugs--is akin to sending people upstream in a canoe without a paddle.

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