| 单词 | to row against the tide |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto row against the (wind and) tide (also stream, flood, etc.) P1. to row against the (wind and) tide (also stream, flood, etc.): to row in the opposite direction to the elements; (frequently figurative) to undertake a difficult or arduous task; to work in adverse circumstances, or in the face of opposition.Cf. to swim against the stream or the tide at swim v. 1c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > have to contend with difficulties to row against the (wind and) tide (also stream, flood, etc.)c1230 to have a tough (hard, long, etc.) row to hoe1810 to spell baker1868 to bat (also play) on a sticky wicket1930 OE Maxims I 185 Werig sceal se wiþ winde roweþ.] c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 58 Ȝe as ȝe wulleð waxen & nawt wenden hindward sikerliche ȝe moten rowen aȝein stream wið muchel swinc breoken forð. a1250 (?c1200) Prov. Alfred (Maidstone) (1955) 85 (MED) Sorwe hit is to rowen [a1275 Trin. Cambr. roȝen, a1300 Jesus Oxf. reowe] awen [read aȝen] þe se-flode. c1330 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 141 (MED) Who-so roweþ aȝein þe flod, Off sorwe he shal drinke. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 1781 (MED) Betre is to wayte upon the tyde Than rowe ayein the stremes stronge. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 7003 (MED) He þat loueþ þere þat is hat, Aȝenst þe streem he roweþ sore. c1475 Wisdom (Folger) (1969) 491 (MED) I woll no more row ageyn þe floode. 1677 A. Horneck Great Law of Consideration vi. 345 He that can row against the Stream, may with greater facility row with it. 1679 W. Petty in E. Fitzmaurice Life Sir W. Petty (1895) 244 I have been travailing in dark dirty crooked ways, and have been rowing against wind and tide. 1786 T. Morell tr. Seneca Epist. II. cxxii. 357 Life is nothing else but rowing against the stream [L. non alia vita est quam contra aquam remigantibus]. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! iv I am not going to be fool enough to row against wind and tide too. 1917 Oregon Hist. Soc. Jrnl. 18 80 During this day they had constantly rowed against the stream, having increased their distance only 12 miles up the river. 2008 S. Rushdie Enchantress of Florence (2009) 95 Always rowing against the tide, eh, Birbal... Now that he is exonerated, your doubts move against him. < as lemmas |
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