Definition
寒流 has two main uses: in weather it refers to a cold snap or cold wave that brings a sudden temperature drop, and in oceanography it means a cold current. A rare literary usage also exists, where it metaphorically describes a poor scholar of limited means, but this is uncommon in modern Chinese.
n.
cold snapcold wave (weather)cold current (oceanography)
Examples
- 寒流，。hán liú lái le, míngtiān huì tèbié lěng.A cold snap is coming; tomorrow will be especially cold.
- 寒流。Zhè gǔ hán liú cóng běijí xiàng nán liúdòng.This cold current flows southward from the Arctic.
- 寒流。Jīnnián dōngtiān yǐjīng chūxiàn le liǎng cì hán liú.There have already been two cold snaps this winter.
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