动 flow，drift，move，wander；名 stream of water，stream，sth. resembling a stream of water，flow ；

[例句] 终有一天，你会学会让泪往心里流。 Eventually, you'll learn to cry that on the inside.

[例句] 每次我感冒都会流鼻血。 Whenever I have a cold I get a nosebleed.

swift current，rushing waters，[物] turbulent flow，turbulence，onflow ；

[例句] 在那段河道的上游,我能看到令人生疑的小湍流. I could see suspicious ripples at the upper end of the reach.

[例句] 宇宙学家正在争论湍流导致星系诞生的可能性. Cosmologists are debating the possibility that turbulence causes galaxies to form.

vortex，turbulence，vortexing，whirling，backset ；

[例句] 汽车在一片扬尘的涡流中不见了. The motor car disappeared in eddy of dust.

[例句] 家庭热水澡桶或是小型涡流浴缸能够按摩并放松身体，可以安装在浴室中。 Home spas or mini whirlpools massage and relax, and can be fitted into the bath.

rate of flow，flow，runoff，discharge，flux ；

[例句] 1998年的资本外流量为220亿元。 There was a capital outflow of $22 billion in 1998.

[例句] 这条河平均流量为每秒二百立方米. The average flow of the river is 200 cubic metres per second.

circulate，circulating，circulation，currency，mobilization ；

[例句] 商品现在可以在欧盟各国自由流通。 Merchandise can now circulate freely among the EU countries.

[例句] 她的房子光线充足，空气流通，清新整洁。 Her house is light and airy, crisp and clean.

动 （彼此把自己有的供给对方） exchange，interflow，interchange；名 [电] （交流电流） AC (alternating current)，alternating，communion ；

[例句] 他在丁格尔湾与海豚交流的时候特别开心。 He was so happy communing with the dolphin in Dingle Bay.

[例句] 家庭疗法指导我们彼此之间的沟通交流。 Family therapy showed us how to communicate with each other.

flow，run，streaming，on the move；

[例句] 我把油画平放以防止未干的颜料流动。 I lay the painting flat to stop the wet paint running.

[例句] 该公司列明其流动资产为5,690万美元。 The company lists its current assets at $56.9 million.

prevalent，popular，fashionable，rage，be the rage ；

[例句] 玛丽女王开启了青花瓷在英格兰的流行风尚。 Queen Mary started the fashion for blue and white china in England.

[例句] 她还幻想着自己能成为流行歌星。 She has some cockeyed delusions about becoming a pop star.

anarrhea，backset，backwash，contra-flow，adverse current ；

[例句] 由于存在着危险的下层逆流，在大部分海岸线附近游泳都不安全。 Dangerous undertows make swimming unsafe along most of the coastline.

[例句] 那男孩逆流游去. The boy was swimming in a direction contrary to the current.

torrent，rapid stream，[气]jet stream，jet flow，race ；

[例句] 急流涌入了水库。 Torrents of water gushed into the reservoir.

[例句] 旅途中要穿过一条水势凶猛的急流。 The trip involved crossing a raging torrent.

reduce expenditure，[工] orificing，choke，throttle down, throttle back，throttle ；

[例句] 汽油检测系统由毛细管节流器组成. The gasoline detection system consists of a capillary restriction.

[例句] 近来,可采用在冷却塔的水管系统中设置旁通阀或节流阀. The latter may be used with bypass or throttling valves in the tower water pipework circuit.

[天] meteor，shooting star，an ancient weapon, composed of two iron balls fixed on a long iron chain，[杂技] meteors，falling star；

[例句] 明亮的流星，或者说陨石，是番难忘的景象。 A bright shooting star, or meteor, is an unforgettable sight.

[例句] “我们看到了一颗很明亮的流星。”——“真的吗？” "We saw a very bright shooting star."—"Did you really?"

[物] fluid，fluor，hydro-，liquid，water ；

[例句] 空气,无论是气态的或是液态的,都是一种流体. Air whether in the gaseous or liquid state is a fluid.

[例句] 流体包括气体和液体. Fluid includes both gasses and liquids.

back-flow，inverse flow，counter-flow，backwash，circumfluence ；

[例句] 近岸回流的冲力能把游泳的人涌到海里. The pull of the undertow can drag swimmers out to sea.

[例句] 化学物质在系统中不断循环或回流. Chemical constantly circulate or recycle in the system.

[水文] watershed，basin，drainage area，catchpit，drainage basin ；

[例句] 雨水过多是亚马逊河与刚果河流域赤道地区的大问题. Too much rain is the problem of the equatorial lands in the Amazon and Congo basins.

[例句] 亚马孙河流域已有40万平方公里的森林遭到滥伐。 400,000 square kilometres of the Amazon basin have already been deforested.

bypass flow，distributary，split-flow，shunt，diffluence ；

[例句] 驶来的车辆会分流到两条车道。 Approaching cars will be routed into two lanes.

[例句] 尽管实行了交通分流，首都依旧很堵。 The capital remained jammed with diverted traffic.

[气] air current，airflow，[语] breath，wind current，airstream ；

[例句] 气流一直从我们身边呼啸而过。 The air was rushing past us all the time.

[例句] 强冷气流从山上疾掠而下。 Blasts of cold air swept down from the mountains.

tide，tidal current，trend，tidal wave，swim ；

[例句] 约翰尼已经改变了他的形象以迎合时代潮流。 Johnny has changed his image to fit the times.

[例句] 我们步入20世纪90年代时，这些潮流变得更糟了。 These trends only got worse as we moved into the nineties.

[物][气] convection，convection current ；

[例句] 这些火焰造成了对流漏斗，把许多微粒抛向上层大气。 These fires create convection funnels, and throw a lot of particles into the upper atmosphere.

[例句] 对流可分为两类, 即 自然对流和强制对流. Convection can be of two types: natural convection and forced convection.

rivers，stream ；

[例句] 河流转向东流时河道大幅度变宽。 The river widens considerably as it begins to turn east.

[例句] 这些小山碧绿陡峭，矗立在这条宽阔的河流之上。 The hills rise green and sheer above the broad river.