billows / great waves (fig. of a story with great momentum)
飘荡
piāo dàng
to drift / to wave / to float on the waves / to flutter in the wind
此起彼伏
cǐ qǐ bǐ fú
up here, down there (idiom) / to rise and fall in succession / no sooner one subsides, the next arises / repeating continuously / occurring again and again (of applause, fires, waves, protests, conflicts, uprisings etc)
lit. the rear waves of the Yangtze River drive on those before (idiom) / fig. the new is constantly replacing the old / each new generation excels the previous / (of things) to be constantly evolving
Maxwell (name) / James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves
长风破浪
cháng fēng pò làng
lit. to ride the wind and crest the waves / to be ambitious and unafraid (idiom)