名词 current:

1. a flow of electricity through a conductor

2. a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)

3. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas

The rescuers were beaten back by strong winds and currents.

救援人员因风浪太大而被迫中断工作。

Cross-currents can sweep the strongest swimmer helplessly away.

即使最强壮的游泳者也会无助地被交叉水流冲走。

The motorboat cut across swift currents and skirted dangerous reefs.

汽艇穿过激流,绕过险滩.

She was swept away by the treacherous currents.

她给凶险的激流卷走了.

The currents drifted the dead body ashore.

潮流把尸体冲到岸边来了.

Under normal conditions, the ocean currents of the tropical Pacific travel from east to west.

在正常情况下，太平洋的热带洋流自东向西流。

The currents of air that the walls of the ship direct upwards, as well as in line of its course are enough to give the great bird with its immense wings sufficent sustenance and progress.

沿着船壁向上引导的以及与航行方向一致的气流足以给这种长有特大翅膀的大鸟以充分的支撑力和前进力.

The intense currents disperse the sewage.

急流冲散了污水。

currents often cause feathering of the cable away from the ship's path.

潮流的影响,常常会使拖缆偏离船只的航线.

The surface wind is the principal agent controlling nontidal currents'surface waves.

表面风是控制非潮汐的海流表面浪的基本营力.

The currents that have been released are not going to subside.

滚滚洪流一旦破闸而出,只会向前,不会止息.

The beating of heart induces alternating currents in the surrounding tissues.

心脏的搏动在其周围组织中感应出交流电流.

Townsfolk , too, were the first to feel new currents of European thought.

最先接触到欧洲新思潮的, 也是城里的人.

Outward currents therefore increase electronegativity in the cell interior.

外向电流因此能增加细胞内的负电性.

Bacteria are carried long distances by air and water currents.

气流和水流可将细菌带得很远.