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HSK
(of a contagious disease etc) to spread / to propagate / (of a style of clothing, song etc) popular / fashionable
HSK 2
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  *流* | 流* | *流
to flow / to disseminate / to circulate or spread / to move or drift / to degenerate / to banish or send into exile / stream of water or sth resembling one / class, rate or grade
HSK 2
fluent
HSK 2
to exchange / exchange / communication / interaction / to have social contact (with sb)
HSK 3
to spread / to circulate / to hand down
HSK 4
tide / current / trend
HSK 4
to flow / to circulate / to go from place to place / to be mobile / (of assets) liquid
HSK 5
to circulate; to distribute / circulation; distribution
HSK 5
top quality / front ranking
HSK 5
main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc)
HSK 6
flu; influenza
HSK 6
distribution (business) / logistics
HSK 7-9
running water / (business) turnover
HSK 7-9
course / stream / sequence of processes / work flow in manufacturing
HSK 7-9
flow rate; throughput of passengers; volume of traffic / (hydrology) discharge / data traffic; network traffic; website traffic; mobile data
HSK 7-9
flowing (of speech, writing) / fluent / smooth and easy
HSK 7-9
rogue / hoodlum / gangster / immoral behavior
HSK 7-9
to alternate; to take turns
HSK 7-9
to flow into / to drift into / influx / inflow
HSK 7-9
to bleed / to shed blood
HSK 7-9
to drift about / to wander / to roam / nomadic / homeless / unsettled (e.g. population) / vagrant
HSK 7-9
river / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
river basin / valley / drainage area
HSK 7-9
direction of a current / direction of flow / to flow toward
HSK 7-9
distinguished and accomplished / outstanding / talented in letters and unconventional in lifestyle / romantic / dissolute / loose
HSK 7-9
upper class
HSK 7-9
to shed tears
HSK 7-9
(of soil etc) to wash away / to be eroded / (fig.) (of talented staff, followers of a religious faith, investment funds etc) to go elsewhere / to fail to be retained
HSK 7-9
to flow
HSK 7-9
to be on the move / to roam or wander / to circulate (of goods or capital)
HSK 7-9
passenger flow / customer flow
HSK 7-9
the stream flows without stopping (idiom); unending flow
HSK 7-9
to reveal (indirectly, implicitly) / to show (interest, contempt etc) by means of one's actions, tone of voice etc
HSK 7-9
high current (e.g. electric)
Murray-Darling river system in the southeast of Australia
clean flowing water / (fig.) (literary) honorable person, untainted by association with disreputable influences / scholars who (in former times) kept themselves aloof from the corrupting influence of those in power
stray dog
rhyolite (extrusive igneous rock, chemically equivalent to granite)
stray bullet
musical sound / flowing rhythm (of poetry) / cadence
to control flow / to choke / weir valve / a throttle / a choke
Shuangliu county in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan / Chengdu's main airport
rectifier (transforming alternating electric current to direct current)
deep rooted and influential
to flow out / to disgorge / to effuse
to sail against the current / (fig.) to go against the flow
traffic / rate of traffic flow
to flow steadily / direct current (DC)
branch stream
fleeting time / horoscope for the year
to rectify (alternating current to direct current)
to diverge; to divert; to divide into separate streams (river flow, traffic etc) / to stream (students into different programs); to reassign (redundant staff)
to spread poison / pernicious influence
(literary) to salivate; to drool; (fig.) to crave sth hungrily
to flow back / reflux / circumfluence / refluence / backward flow / returning flow (e.g. of talent)
an electric current / (old) current intensity
the Yellow River basin
lit. love debt / fig. moral obligation in consequence of a love affair / karmic consequences of a love affair
the year's horoscope augurs ill (idiom); an unlucky year
(derog.) woman
flow speed / rate of flow
third-rate / inferior
to flow at great speed / to pour / racing current
to flow and change / development and change (of society)
gentry / celebrities
streamline (physics)
landslide / torrent of mud and stones / mudslide
stream of people / abortion / abbr. for 人工流產|人工流产
jet (math.)
fluid
(of watercourses) source and course / origin and development
laminar flow
to exile / to banish / to deport / to float (logs) downstream
(of rivers etc) to converge / convergence
a powerful current / a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas)
tributary (stream) / (fig.) school (of thought) / genre / style
to draw off (liquid) / (medicine) to perform a drainage procedure / to attract traffic online
torrent / torrential current / whitewater
to ooze; to seep
lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene
meteor shower
second-rate / second-tier
against the stream / adverse current / a countercurrent / fig. reactionary tendency / to go against the trend
tributary (river)
to float on the current / to drift along or about / rafting
firefly
to loiter (i.e. reluctant to leave) / to linger on
banquet where guests arrive at various times and are served with food as they arrive
to overflow / transverse flow / to flow over / cross flow
stream of air / airflow / slipstream / draft / breath / turbulence (of aircraft)
lit. source is distant and the flow is long (idiom); fig. sth goes back to the dim and distant past / a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then
to discharge pus / to suppurate
alternating current
Ziliujing District of Zigong City 自貢市|自贡市, Sichuan
to sweat
turbulence
(of time) to pass / to elapse
rumors and slanders (idiom); gossip / lies and slanders

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