to exchange / exchange / communication / interaction / to have social contact (with sb)

to alternate / to take turns

main stream (of a river) / fig. the essential point / main viewpoint of a matter / mainstream (culture etc)

tide / current / trend

tributary (river)

top quality / front ranking

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

electric current

river / CL: 條｜条

to drain / (medicine) drainage

alternative / non-mainstream

distinguished and accomplished / outstanding / talented in letters and unconventional in lifestyle / romantic / dissolute / loose

traffic / rate of traffic flow

gentry / celebrities

convection

stream of people / abortion / abbr. for 人工流產｜人工流产

the spread of Korean cultural products (TV dramas, pop music etc) to other countries / Korean Wave

data stream / data flow

cash flow

to flow back / reflux / circumfluence / refluence / backward flow / returning flow (e.g. of talent)

Shuangliu county in Chengdu 成都, Sichuan / Chengdu's main airport

stream of air / airflow / slipstream / draft / breath / turbulence (of aircraft)

the spread of Japanese cultural products (anime, pop music etc) to other countries

bypass

landslide / torrent of mud and stones / mudslide

passenger flow / customer flow

to control flow / to choke / weir valve / a throttle / a choke

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

river / stream

stream

to flow backwards / reverse flow

to float on the current / to drift along or about / rafting

workflow

jet (math.)

a powerful current / a flood (often fig., e.g. a flood of ideas)

(of rivers etc) to converge / convergence

rotating flow

stream / flow of liquid

to rectify (alternating current to direct current)

undercurrent

to drift with the waves and go with the flow (idiom); to follow the crowd blindly

river / river flow / current

outflow / to flow out / to drain

to overflow / transverse flow / to flow over / cross flow

to flow steadily / direct current (DC)

inward flowing (of river) / flowing into desert

readily following good advice (idiom); willing to accept other people's views

(of watercourses) source and direction of flow / origin and development

(linguistics) flow of speech

to follow the crowd / going with the tide

Beiliu county level city in Yulin 玉林, Guangxi

lit. thin streams flow forever / fig. economy will get you a long way / to work steadily at something little by little

torrent / torrential current / whitewater

man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom) / one should constantly strive to make progress

able to reply quickly and fluently (idiom); having a ready answer

against the stream / adverse current / a countercurrent / fig. reactionary tendency / to go against the trend

runoff

main stream (of a river)

lit. head broken and blood flowing / fig. badly bruised

medical abortion

laminar flow

Qingliu county in Sanming 三明, Fujian

turbulence

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

see 風水輪流轉｜风水轮流转

the lowest professions

stream of consciousness (in literature)

ocean current

midstream

to gush / to spurt

celebrity / public figure

to seep / leakage

to piss in one's pants in terror (idiom); scared witless

upper class

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.)

wasted effort

to let sb do whatever they want / to indulge / to give free reins to / to let things slide / to drift aimlessly / laissez-faire

heat convection

alternating current (electricity)

wake (trailing behind a ship, airplane etc) / slipstream

to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably

torrent

fluent with words / words flowing like pearl beads

to know by heart (so well that you can recite it backwards)

variant of 漂流

lower course of a river / low-class / mean and lowly / vulgar / obscene

strong current / CL: 股

to run dry (of river)

to flow at great speed / to pour / racing current

atmospheric circulation

exchange of ideas

drainage

turbid flow / muddy waters / fig. a contemptible person / fig. corrupt or disgraceful social trends

warm current / (fig.) warm feeling

second-rate / second-tier

to converge / to flow together / fig. to act alike / to evolve together

bias current (electronics)

flow of air / draft

(PRC) flow of people from the countryside into the cities / rural migrant without definite prospects / drifter

cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream