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HSK
top quality / front ranking
HSK 5
to exchange / exchange / communication / interaction / to have social contact (with sb)
HSK 3
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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
main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc)
HSK 6
tide / current / trend
HSK 4
to alternate; to take turns
HSK 7-9
passenger flow / customer flow
HSK 7-9
second-rate / second-tier
distinguished and accomplished / outstanding / talented in letters and unconventional in lifestyle / romantic / dissolute / loose
HSK 7-9
river / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
to limit the flow of passengers, customers or vehicles / to limit the spread of sensitive content / (electricity) current limiting / (computer networking) rate limiting
against the stream / adverse current / a countercurrent / fig. reactionary tendency / to go against the trend
full throttle / top speed
upper class
HSK 7-9
man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom) / one should constantly strive to make progress
distribution (business) / logistics
HSK 7-9
to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)
to kill and banish
the Three Religions (Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism) and Nine Schools (Confucians, Daoists, Yin-Yang, Legalists, Logicians, Mohists, Political Strategists, Eclectics, Agriculturists) / fig. people from all trades (often derog.)
third-rate / inferior
alternating current (electricity)
stream of consciousness (in literature)
the nine schools of thought, philosophical schools of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods (770-220 BC), viz Confucians 儒家, Daoists 道家, Yin and Yang 陰陽家|阴阳家, Legalists 法家, Logicians 名家, Mohists 墨家, Diplomats 縱橫家|纵横家, Miscellaneous 雜家|杂家, and Agriculturalists 農家|农家
(Tw) (of music, video etc) to be streamed; (as a noun or attributive) streaming
lit. head broken and blood flowing / fig. badly bruised
to flow backwards / reverse flow
the lowest professions
lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene
to respond fluently / to answer smartly
the passage of the years / the flow of time
to flow back / reflux / circumfluence / refluence / backward flow / returning flow (e.g. of talent)
stream
(fig.) a breath of fresh air
convection
turbulent flow
(Tw) debris flow / mudslide
inward flowing (of river) / flowing into desert
to gush / to spurt
to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly
to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably
ocean current
outflow / to flow out / to drain
readily following good advice (idiom); willing to accept other people's views
(psychology) flow / being "in the zone"
data stream / data flow
gentry / celebrities
to let sb do whatever they want / to indulge / to give free reins to / to let things slide / to drift aimlessly / laissez-faire
arms enough to stem the stream (idiom); formidable army
to be overflowing with tears (idiom)
atmospheric circulation
midstream
warm current / (fig.) warm feeling
to float on the current / to drift along or about / rafting
Double First-Class University Plan, Chinese government project to develop both a group of Chinese universities and a group of subject disciplines to be world-class by 2050, implemented from 2017
to rectify (alternating current to direct current)
runoff
stream / flow of liquid
to converge / to flow together / fig. to act alike / to evolve together
(elec.) unidirectional current / DC / also written 直流
(oceanography) thermohaline circulation
(derog.) woman
cultural exchange
river / stream
able to reply quickly and fluently (idiom); having a ready answer
to draw off (liquid) / (medicine) to perform a drainage procedure / to attract traffic online
lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little
blood flow
wake (trailing behind a ship, airplane etc) / slipstream
a powerful current / a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas)
exchange of ideas
Shuangliu county in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan / Chengdu's main airport
cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream
tributary (river)
lit. to open a water source and reduce outflow (idiom); to increase income and save on spending / to broaden the sources of income and economize on expenditure
(slang) top-tier celebrity or influencer (abbr. for 頂級流量|顶级流量)
wasted effort
main stream (of a river)
(of watercourses) source and course / origin and development
runoff
an electric current / (old) current intensity
brain drain
bias current (electronics)
to overflow / transverse flow / to flow over / cross flow
turbid flow / muddy waters / fig. a contemptible person / fig. corrupt or disgraceful social trends
lava flow
to follow the crowd / going with the tide
Korean Wave, aka Hallyu (the increase in international interest in South Korea and its popular culture since the 1990s)
to flow at great speed / to pour / racing current
stream of particles / particle flow
stream of people / abortion / abbr. for 人工流產|人工流产
lit. clouds scatter, wind flows (idiom); the crisis settles down / people disperse home / things return to normal
hidden stream / ground stream
high current (e.g. electric)
cash flow
(of rivers etc) to converge / convergence
heat convection
type A influenza / abbr. for 甲型H1N1流感 / refers to H1N1 influenza of 2009
to flow steadily / direct current (DC)
first-class

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