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

to alternate; to take turns

tide / current / trend

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

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

distribution (business) / logistics

gentry / celebrities

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

electric current

warm current / (fig.) warm feeling

to flow steadily / direct current (DC)

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

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

upper class

to drain / (medicine) drainage

bypass

to rectify (alternating current to direct current)

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

river / CL: 條｜条

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

river / stream

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

Qingliu county in Sanming 三明, Fujian

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

rotating flow

turbulence

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

medical abortion

midstream

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

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

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

passenger flow / customer flow

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

outflow / to flow out / to drain

landslide / torrent of mud and stones / mudslide

torrent / torrential current / whitewater

convection

torrent

to flow backwards / reverse flow

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

(derog.) woman

third-rate / inferior

undercurrent

alternative / non-mainstream

second-rate / second-tier

stream

traffic / rate of traffic flow

to flow at great speed / to pour / racing current

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

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

cold air current / cold ocean current / cold stream

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

(of rivers etc) to converge / convergence

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

jet (math.)

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

river / river flow / current

main stream (of a river)

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

to run dry (of river)

laminar flow

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.)

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

ocean current

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

flow of air / draft

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

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

to follow the crowd / going with the tide

lava flow

to seep / leakage

wasted effort

variant of 漂流

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

to gush / to spurt

to follow admonition as natural flow (idiom); to accept criticism or correction (even from one's inferiors)

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

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

the lowest professions

to spread / to hand down / to circulate

arms enough to stem the stream (idiom); formidable army

turbulent flow

to gush / to spurt

to rinse one's mouth with river water / (fig.) to live a hermit's life

hidden stream / ground stream

(linguistics) flow of speech

branch stream

blood flow

high current (e.g. electric)

turbulence (in fluid mechanics)

mountain stream / stream in a valley

small craftsman (contemptuous)

runoff

to kill and banish

Beiliu, county-level city in Yulin 玉林, Guangxi

late degenerate stage

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