flow是什么意思_flow怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously;"a stream of people emptied from the terminal"
"the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors"

dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;"two streams of development run through American history"
"stream of consciousness"
"the flow of thought"
"the current of history"

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause;"the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"
"a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"
"the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"

Verb:

move or progress freely as if in a stream;"The crowd flowed out of the stadium"

move along, of liquids;"Water flowed into the cave"
"the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"

cause to flow;"The artist flowed the washes on the paper"

be abundantly present;"The champagne flowed at the wedding"

fall or flow in a certain way;"This dress hangs well"
"Her long black hair flowed down her back"

cover or swamp with water

undergo menstruation;"She started menstruating at the age of 11"

中英词源

flow 浮动

来自PIE*pleu, 浮动，流动，词源同float, fleet, pluvial.

flow: flow: [OE] The prehistoric Indo-European *pleu-, ancestor of a heterogeneous range of English vocabulary, from fleet to plover, denoted ‘flow, float’. It had a variant form *plō-, which passed into Germanic as *flō-. This formed the basis of the Old English verb flōwan (whence modern English flow) and also of the noun flood.
=> fleet, flood, fowl, plover, pluvial
flow (v.): Old English flowan "to flow, stream, issue; become liquid, melt; abound, overflow" (class VII strong verb; past tense fleow, past participle flowen), from Proto-Germanic *flowan "to flow" (cognates: Middle Dutch vloyen, Dutch vloeien, vloeijen "to flow," Old Norse floa "to deluge," Old High German flouwen "to rinse, wash"), probably from PIE *pleu- "flow, float" (see pluvial). The weak form predominated from 14c., but strong past participle flown is occasionally attested through 18c. Related: Flowed; flowing.
flow (n.): mid-15c., "action of flowing," from flow (v.). Meaning "amount that flows" is from 1807. Sense of "any strong, progressive movement comparable to the flow of a river" is from 1640s. Flow chart attested from 1920 (flow-sheet in same sense from 1912). To go with the flow is by 1977, apparently originally in skiing jargon.
Go with the flow, enjoy the forces, let ankles, knees, hips and waist move subtly to soak up potential disturbances of acceleration and deceleration. ["Ski" magazine, November 1980]

词态变化

第三人称单数 flows;
过去式 flowed;
过去分词 flowed;
现在分词 flowing;

权威造句

1. She unbound her hair and let it flow loose in the wind.: 她把头发解开，让它随风飘动。

2. These dams have restricted the flow of the river downstream.: 这些堤坝限制了河水顺流而下。

3. A French-based pharmaceuticals company ran into cash-flow problems and faced liquidation.: 法国的一家制药公司陷入资金周转问题，面临清算的危机。

4. She watched the frantic flow of cars and buses along the street.: 她注视着街上小汽车和巴士汇成的滚滚车流。

5. A barrage would halt the flow upstream and lift the water level.: 一道拦河坝将会在上游拦住水流，抬升水位。

近反义词

gush

run

rush

stream

相似短语

on the flow 在流动,在涨潮

flow to vt.流向

FLOW IN n.注入,流入

flow into 流入

ratio of flow to mean flow 径流模数，径流模数

cash flow n.(公司、政府等的)现金流转

flow over 溢过,漫过,披在…,在….泛滥;对…没有很大影响

flow over into 涌入,注进…

cerebrospinal flow 脑脊髓液

circulation flow 环流

单词分析

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