"Tide" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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潮流 cháo liú tide / current / trend
狂潮 kuáng cháo surging tide / (fig.) tide / craze / rage / spree
潮水 cháo shuǐ tide
海潮 hǎi cháo tide
潮汐 cháo xī tide
潮 cháo tide / current / damp / moist / humid
高低潮 gāo dī cháo the tide / high and low water
高潮 gāo cháo high tide / high water / upsurge / climax / orgasm / chorus (part of a song)
跟风 gēn fēng to go with the tide / to blindly follow the crowd / to follow the trend
人潮 rén cháo a tide of people
大潮 dà cháo spring tide / (fig.) momentous social change
思潮 sī cháo tide of thought / way of thinking characteristic of a historical period / Zeitgeist
低潮 dī cháo low tide / low ebb
水涨船高 shuǐ zhǎng chuán gāo the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom) / fig. to change with the overall trend / to develop according to the situation
力挽狂澜 lì wǎn kuáng lán to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom) / fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis
来潮 lái cháo (of water) to rise / rising tide / (of women) to get one's period
反败为胜 fǎn bài wéi shèng to turn defeat into victory (idiom) / to turn the tide
红潮 hóng cháo to blush / flush / red tide (algal bloom) / menstruation
涨潮 zhǎng cháo high tide / rising tide
潮涌 cháo yǒng to surge like the tide
时不我待 shí bù wǒ dài time and tide wait for no man (idiom)
随大流 suí dà liú to follow the crowd / going with the tide
倒行逆施 dào xíng nì shī to go against the tide (idiom) / to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
倒灌 dào guàn to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc) / reverse flow / to back up (sewage)
怒潮 nù cháo (tidal) bore / raging tide
潮位 cháo wèi tide level
岁不我与 suì bù wǒ yǔ Time and tide wait for no man (idiom)
逆行倒施 nì xíng dǎo shī to go against the tide (idiom) / to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
与世俯仰 yǔ shì fǔ yǎng to swim with the tide (idiom)
不随大流 bù suí dà liú not following the crowd / to go against the tide
小潮 xiǎo cháo neap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter)
最低潮 zuì dī cháo lit. low tide / fig. the lowest point (e.g. of a relationship)
朔望潮 shuò wàng cháo spring tide (biggest tide, at new moon or full moon)
防潮堤 fáng cháo dī tide embankment
顺潮 shùn cháo favorable tide
风起潮涌 fēng qǐ cháo yǒng lit. wind rises, tide bubbles up / turbulent times / violent development (idiom)
潮汛 cháo xùn spring tide
验潮仪 yàn cháo yí tide gauge / tidal gauge
潮位水尺 cháo wèi shuǐ chǐ tide gauge / tidal gauge
波潮理论 bō cháo lǐ lùn wave and tide theory
上升的趋势  rising tide / tide flow
潮位校正  tidal reduction / tide reducer / water level reducer
最低天文潮位 zuì dī tiān wén cháo wèi lowest astronomic tide
最高天文潮 zuì gāo tiān wén cháo highest astronomic tide
无线电潮位计 wú xiàn diàn cháo wèi jì radio tide gauge
高高潮 gāo gāo cháo higher high water, large tide
验潮站 yàn cháo zhàn tide gauge site
潮位站 cháo wèi zhàn tide gauge site
低低潮大潮 dī dī cháo dài cháo lower low-water large tide
平均潮位 píng jūn cháo wèi mean tide level / half tide level
印度洋基准面 yìn duó yáng jī zhǔn miàn Indian spring low-water / Indian tide plane
大潮最低低潮面 dài cháo zuì dī dī cháo miàn lowest low-water spring tide
平均高高潮 píng jūn gāo gāo cháo higher high water, mean tide
潮致冰裂 cháo zhì bīng liè tide crack
潮差  range of tide / tidal range / tide range
潮高  tidal height / height of tide
干潮 gān cháo low tide / low water
满潮 mǎn cháo high tide / high water
随大溜 suí dà liù to follow the crowd / going with the tide
垫底 diàn dǐ to put sth on the bottom / to eat sth to tide oneself over until mealtime / to lay the foundation / to come last in the rankings
逆行倒施 nì xíng dào shī to go against the tide (idiom) / to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things
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