Word · 単語
流れ
Reading ながれ
flow (of a fluid or gas)
- 1 flow (of a fluid or gas), stream, current
- 2 flow (of people, things), passage (of time), tide, passing, (changing) trends, tendency
- 3 course (of events), (step-by-step) procedure, process
- 4 group of people who remain together after the end of an event
- 5 descent, ancestry, school
- 6 forfeiture, foreclosure
- 7 cancellation — usu. as お流れ
- 8 drifting, wandering, roaming
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例文 · examples
こういう流れになると結局、どんぐりの背比べになる。
Once things start going this way, in the end they'll all be much of a muchness.
sense 3 · course (of events)
田中さんの教えるのは歴史の流れに逆らう。
Tanaka's teaching goes against the stream of history.
sense 2 · flow (of people, things)
流れはさほど速くない。
The stream is not very swift.
静かな流れは深い。
Still waters run deep.
このあたりは流れが速い。
The current is rapid around here.