Definition of current in English:

current

adjective ˈkʌr(ə)ntˈkərənt

1Belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now.
当前的，现时的
keep abreast of current events
随时了解时事动态。
I started my current job in 2001
我是在1994年开始做现在这个工作的。
Example sentencesExamples
- The prospectus doesn't forecast what will happen in the current year.
- One current trend is to make the skirt panels extremely stiff.
- Like all problems, however, the current perception of incompetence presents an opportunity.
- Most often people indulge in a fight not over a current event but about something that happened in the past.
- What use was learning about the past when there were much more current situations to deal with?
- The most current bibliographical entry dates from June 2003, the year before publication.
- This was done in the current research by presenting events (bets on the toss of a coin) in blocks.
- I'm not expected to be well-educated on modern politics and current events.
- The decline of the dollar is a warning sign that current economic trends cannot continue.
- Has anyone bothered to ask the population at large how safe they feel in the current police presence?
- Itching to begin new projects while current ones still sit unfinished?
- He said the current services that were present were insufficient because of a lack of funding.
- The orchestra is made up of both past and current students from the Presentation College.
- However, they obviously did not do enough because if there was not a serious problem the current turn of events would not have happened.
- The previews I read were all excited by this new idea technique of treating history as current affairs.
- I wish the producers would realise that current affairs is not the only show in town.
- Most current accounts pay a pitiful rate of interest, usually only a fraction of 1 %.
- He is not sure whether this legislation does dovetail neatly into the current situation.
- Unlike other diagnostic criteria, the pulse is very reactive and reflects the most current state of the individual.
- He also updated the branch on the current happenings in the county.
Synonyms
contemporary, present-day, present, contemporaneous, ongoing
topical, in the news, live, alive, happening, burning
modern, latest, popular, fashionable, in fashion, in vogue, up to date, up to the minute
French de nos jours
informal trendy, now, in
1. 1.1 In common or general use.
  通用的，通行的，流行的
  the other meaning of the word is still current
  该词的另一个意思仍然通用。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A common current myth about American English is that it is being ruined by mass media.
  The attitude current at the time was that they were an inferior race.
  Synonyms
  prevalent, prevailing, common, in general use, accepted, in circulation, circulating, going around, doing/making the rounds, popular, widespread, rife, about
  talked of, on everyone's lips, bruited about

noun ˈkʌr(ə)ntˈkərənt

1A body of water or air moving in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement.
流；水流；气流
ocean currents
洋流。
Example sentencesExamples
- Air movement and thermal currents transport dust and microbial particulates; particles that become airborne then can settle on open wounds.
- A stream looks like it's flowing in one direction, but there are little eddies and currents that move water in different directions.
- For example, I have assumed that the animal is active only for twelve hours each day, and I have ignored any effects of winds and water currents.
- She would learn the secrets of the ocean's past, hear them whispered through the currents and waters.
- Many huge currents of water move through the oceans often aided by the winds.
- The experimental tandem mission data will help scientists better detect and understand ocean currents, tides and eddies.
- Elsewhere, we witness fluid arabesques that suggest currents of wind or water and a grove of green trees, their leaves knotted into high relief.
- Also significant were crisscrossing layers of sediment in the rock that revealed they formed beneath currents of moving water.
- Winter changes abruptly into summer, borne by warm winds and the arrival of the Climate Stream, a shift of ocean currents that brings warm water to the land.
- The normal situation has giant ocean currents flowing anticlockwise around the South Pacific Ocean.
- You must pick your time well, as she is often swept by strong tidal currents.
- An apparition of misty light, the passage suggests currents of wind and water but the composition resists settling into the pictorial vocabulary of landscape.
- In the underwater world, the lateral system sensed the currents of water surrounding the fishes' bodies.
- The data will cover things such as water currents, wind direction and temperatures.
- It is caused by a slowing down of the Atlantic Conveyor, the current which circulates water in the ocean.
- Thoughts swirled through her mind like currents of water rushing down a section of rapids.
- It glittered and it looked almost as if a current of water ran through it.
- Driven by forces such as wind, tides, and gravity, currents keep our oceans in constant motion.
- It is so big it has blocked wind and water currents that break up ice floes in McMurdo Sound during the Antarctic summer.
- Formed in the process of oceans, by wind and tide and currents, layers of water all lapping over each other, you rise in the dance of water and eventually fulfill your destiny and crash onto the shore.
Synonyms
steady flow, stream, backdraught, slipstream
airstream, thermal, updraught, draught
undercurrent, undertow, tide
2A flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles.
电流
this completes the circuit so that a current flows to the lamp
magnetic fields are produced by currents flowing in the cables
Example sentencesExamples
- Small currents of electricity began to surge around him, coming off of his body.
- When these currents flow across the circuitry that separates the rover chassis and power bus return, they create a small voltage that is measured and reported in telemetry.
- Their faces light up and eyes twinkle as if there's a current of electricity swirling inside them.
- Electric currents result from inducing the movement of electrons within the solid.
- In this context the resistivity of a rock means its resistance to the flow of an electrical current.
- The direct analogy to voltage and current is the flow of water through a hose.
- To give a bit more detail, the motion of the air causes a skin membrane in the inner ear to vibrate, and those vibrations are converted into tiny electrical currents that flow into the brain.
- Owing to this resistance, an electric field has to drive the electrons in order to maintain the current.
- Her hands juddered at her sides as if charged with an electric current.
- The very small particles stream through wires and circuits creating currents of electricity.
- When a current flows through a wire a circular magnetic field is created around it.
- Due to certain conditions of the earth beneath dwellings, electrical currents are caused to flow, thus producing a magnetic field that extends into the dwelling space.
- This interaction causes giant electrical currents to flow above our heads of around one million amps!
- The shock wave and cloud smashed into the Earth's magnetic field, causing a huge increase in the flow of invisible electric currents in space and in our atmosphere.
- However, the magnet exists only when the current is flowing from the battery.
- The current then reverses and flows in a negative direction for the remaining milliseconds of the electrical discharge.
- It's a peculiar sort of pain, like a current of electricity is grinding between the broken ends of bone.
- Electrocardiography records the flow of electrical currents of the heart as they move away or toward a specific electrode.
- Experts used to think it was just a matter of the air being heated by particles and electric currents in the regions around the poles, where auroras occur.
- Turbulence within the super-hot plasma has a nasty habit of transporting the heat out as fast as colossal electric currents and particle beams can shovel it in.
1. 2.1 A quantity representing the rate of flow of electric charge, usually measured in amperes.
  电流强度（通常用安培计算）
  at high currents there is wasteful power dissipation
  Example sentencesExamples
  As discussed previously, voltage is measured in volts, and current is measured in amps.
  Obtaining adequate power requires total currents greater than 10,000 amperes.
  These tactics can modify the magnitude and phase relationship between voltages and currents in the power system network.
  A first detector detects an average of the AC current applied to the charge member.
  Then measure the voltage and current by attaching your volt meter to the two pieces of metal.
3The general tendency or course of events or opinion.
趋势，潮流，倾向
the student movement formed a distinct current of protest
学生运动构成了一个独立的抗议潮流。
Example sentencesExamples
- The courts' response is generally slow, often several years behind the current of popular opinion.
- None of this will really be surprising to readers, as he has been writing for longer than most about the demographic and economic currents driving these events.
- It is argued that attention to both these philosophical currents is important in order maximize the value of electronic delivery.
- One of the things you do is write poetry for yourself and of course, one of the themes you explore in that poetry is the changing social currents.
- Though rap music has produced a variety of sub-genres in the last 25 years, it has recently divided itself into two general currents.
- Rather than operating from a critical distance, I seem to be swayed by the emotional currents of events like the soccer and music.
- This is why there is not a people in which these three currents of opinion do not coexist, turning man toward divergent and even contradictory directions.
- It took Trotsky to persuade him that the rising must be called in the name of the soviets, which represented the different currents of the workers' movement.
- They also provide a glimpse of the powerful social currents that shape the course of language usage in society.
- As for widespread sentiment opposing the decision, the Court had a duty to rise above raging currents of public opinion.
- He was thereby only following the prevailing current of public opinion.
- It is not always a reliable guide to the broader political currents coursing through the Continent.
- In this context, it is possible to detect two strong currents in public opinion that could be driving the next sea change in the world's perception of America.
- A lot of the tendencies and currents of the times favored the building up of an aristocracy based on the ownership of city property.
- Like ocean waters, intellectual currents are always in motion.
- The general anarcho-syndicalist currents were leading radical forces until the first war.
- Indeed, the currents of public opinion are running the other way.
- Activists from Islamist, secular, communist and socialist currents from across the globe sat together sharing their views, and absorbed in friendly conversation.
- In Europe at least, there are three distinct currents.
- The idea that at any given moment living revolutionary parties contain all sorts of currents, tendencies and trends, not all of them revolutionary, some ultra-left, is hardly new.
Synonyms
course, progress, progression, flow, tide, movement
trend, drift, direction, tendency, swing, tenor

Origin

Middle English (in the adjective sense 'running, flowing'): from Old French corant 'running', from courre 'run', from Latin currere 'run'.

cursor from Middle English:
Nowadays we call the movable indicator on our computer screen the cursor. In medieval English a cursor was a running messenger: it is a borrowing of the Latin word for ‘a runner’, and comes from currere ‘to run’. From the late 16th century cursor became the term for a sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument, marked with a line for pinpointing the position on a scale that you want, the forerunner of the computing sense. Currere is the source of very many English words including course (Middle English) something you run along; concourse (Late Middle English) originally a crowd who had ‘run together’; current (Middle English) originally meaning ‘running, flowing’; discursive (late 16th century) running away from the point; excursion (late 16th century) running out to see things; intercourse (Late Middle English) originally an exchange running between people; and precursor (Late Middle English) one who goes before; as well as supplying the cur part of concur (Late Middle English); incur (Late Middle English); occur (Late Middle English) (from ob- ‘against’); and recur (Middle English).

Rhymes

blackcurrant, concurrent, currant, occurrent, redcurrant

Definition of current in US English:

current

adjectiveˈkərəntˈkərənt

1Belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now.
当前的，现时的
keep abreast of current events
随时了解时事动态。
I started my current job last year
我是在1994年开始做现在这个工作的。
Example sentencesExamples
- I'm not expected to be well-educated on modern politics and current events.
- Like all problems, however, the current perception of incompetence presents an opportunity.
- The most current bibliographical entry dates from June 2003, the year before publication.
- The orchestra is made up of both past and current students from the Presentation College.
- The prospectus doesn't forecast what will happen in the current year.
- One current trend is to make the skirt panels extremely stiff.
- Unlike other diagnostic criteria, the pulse is very reactive and reflects the most current state of the individual.
- What use was learning about the past when there were much more current situations to deal with?
- Has anyone bothered to ask the population at large how safe they feel in the current police presence?
- He said the current services that were present were insufficient because of a lack of funding.
- The decline of the dollar is a warning sign that current economic trends cannot continue.
- The previews I read were all excited by this new idea technique of treating history as current affairs.
- I wish the producers would realise that current affairs is not the only show in town.
- Itching to begin new projects while current ones still sit unfinished?
- Most current accounts pay a pitiful rate of interest, usually only a fraction of 1 %.
- This was done in the current research by presenting events (bets on the toss of a coin) in blocks.
- He is not sure whether this legislation does dovetail neatly into the current situation.
- However, they obviously did not do enough because if there was not a serious problem the current turn of events would not have happened.
- Most often people indulge in a fight not over a current event but about something that happened in the past.
- He also updated the branch on the current happenings in the county.
Synonyms
contemporary, present-day, present, contemporaneous, ongoing
1. 1.1 In common or general use.
  通用的，通行的，流行的
  the other meaning of the word is still current
  该词的另一个意思仍然通用。
  Example sentencesExamples
  A common current myth about American English is that it is being ruined by mass media.
  The attitude current at the time was that they were an inferior race.
  Synonyms
  prevalent, prevailing, common, in general use, accepted, in circulation, circulating, going around, doing the rounds, making the rounds, popular, widespread, rife, about

nounˈkərəntˈkərənt

1A body of water or air moving in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement.
流；水流；气流
ocean currents
洋流。
Example sentencesExamples
- Also significant were crisscrossing layers of sediment in the rock that revealed they formed beneath currents of moving water.
- In the underwater world, the lateral system sensed the currents of water surrounding the fishes' bodies.
- It is so big it has blocked wind and water currents that break up ice floes in McMurdo Sound during the Antarctic summer.
- You must pick your time well, as she is often swept by strong tidal currents.
- Winter changes abruptly into summer, borne by warm winds and the arrival of the Climate Stream, a shift of ocean currents that brings warm water to the land.
- Air movement and thermal currents transport dust and microbial particulates; particles that become airborne then can settle on open wounds.
- The experimental tandem mission data will help scientists better detect and understand ocean currents, tides and eddies.
- She would learn the secrets of the ocean's past, hear them whispered through the currents and waters.
- Driven by forces such as wind, tides, and gravity, currents keep our oceans in constant motion.
- It is caused by a slowing down of the Atlantic Conveyor, the current which circulates water in the ocean.
- Formed in the process of oceans, by wind and tide and currents, layers of water all lapping over each other, you rise in the dance of water and eventually fulfill your destiny and crash onto the shore.
- For example, I have assumed that the animal is active only for twelve hours each day, and I have ignored any effects of winds and water currents.
- Many huge currents of water move through the oceans often aided by the winds.
- Elsewhere, we witness fluid arabesques that suggest currents of wind or water and a grove of green trees, their leaves knotted into high relief.
- Thoughts swirled through her mind like currents of water rushing down a section of rapids.
- A stream looks like it's flowing in one direction, but there are little eddies and currents that move water in different directions.
- The data will cover things such as water currents, wind direction and temperatures.
- It glittered and it looked almost as if a current of water ran through it.
- The normal situation has giant ocean currents flowing anticlockwise around the South Pacific Ocean.
- An apparition of misty light, the passage suggests currents of wind and water but the composition resists settling into the pictorial vocabulary of landscape.
Synonyms
steady flow, stream, backdraught, slipstream
1. 1.1 A flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles.
  电流
  Example sentencesExamples
  When a current flows through a wire a circular magnetic field is created around it.
  The very small particles stream through wires and circuits creating currents of electricity.
  Electric currents result from inducing the movement of electrons within the solid.
  The current then reverses and flows in a negative direction for the remaining milliseconds of the electrical discharge.
  Due to certain conditions of the earth beneath dwellings, electrical currents are caused to flow, thus producing a magnetic field that extends into the dwelling space.
  When these currents flow across the circuitry that separates the rover chassis and power bus return, they create a small voltage that is measured and reported in telemetry.
  Experts used to think it was just a matter of the air being heated by particles and electric currents in the regions around the poles, where auroras occur.
  Their faces light up and eyes twinkle as if there's a current of electricity swirling inside them.
  In this context the resistivity of a rock means its resistance to the flow of an electrical current.
  This interaction causes giant electrical currents to flow above our heads of around one million amps!
  Her hands juddered at her sides as if charged with an electric current.
  To give a bit more detail, the motion of the air causes a skin membrane in the inner ear to vibrate, and those vibrations are converted into tiny electrical currents that flow into the brain.
  Turbulence within the super-hot plasma has a nasty habit of transporting the heat out as fast as colossal electric currents and particle beams can shovel it in.
  Small currents of electricity began to surge around him, coming off of his body.
  The shock wave and cloud smashed into the Earth's magnetic field, causing a huge increase in the flow of invisible electric currents in space and in our atmosphere.
  Owing to this resistance, an electric field has to drive the electrons in order to maintain the current.
  However, the magnet exists only when the current is flowing from the battery.
  Electrocardiography records the flow of electrical currents of the heart as they move away or toward a specific electrode.
  It's a peculiar sort of pain, like a current of electricity is grinding between the broken ends of bone.
  The direct analogy to voltage and current is the flow of water through a hose.
2. 1.2 A quantity representing the rate of flow of electric charge, usually measured in amperes.
  电流强度（通常用安培计算）
  Example sentencesExamples
  As discussed previously, voltage is measured in volts, and current is measured in amps.
  These tactics can modify the magnitude and phase relationship between voltages and currents in the power system network.
  A first detector detects an average of the AC current applied to the charge member.
  Then measure the voltage and current by attaching your volt meter to the two pieces of metal.
  Obtaining adequate power requires total currents greater than 10,000 amperes.
3. 1.3 The general tendency or course of events or opinion.
  趋势，潮流，倾向
  the student movement formed a distinct current of protest
  学生运动构成了一个独立的抗议潮流。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Like ocean waters, intellectual currents are always in motion.
  In this context, it is possible to detect two strong currents in public opinion that could be driving the next sea change in the world's perception of America.
  One of the things you do is write poetry for yourself and of course, one of the themes you explore in that poetry is the changing social currents.
  It is argued that attention to both these philosophical currents is important in order maximize the value of electronic delivery.
  This is why there is not a people in which these three currents of opinion do not coexist, turning man toward divergent and even contradictory directions.
  They also provide a glimpse of the powerful social currents that shape the course of language usage in society.
  The courts' response is generally slow, often several years behind the current of popular opinion.
  Though rap music has produced a variety of sub-genres in the last 25 years, it has recently divided itself into two general currents.
  The idea that at any given moment living revolutionary parties contain all sorts of currents, tendencies and trends, not all of them revolutionary, some ultra-left, is hardly new.
  Activists from Islamist, secular, communist and socialist currents from across the globe sat together sharing their views, and absorbed in friendly conversation.
  None of this will really be surprising to readers, as he has been writing for longer than most about the demographic and economic currents driving these events.
  In Europe at least, there are three distinct currents.
  It is not always a reliable guide to the broader political currents coursing through the Continent.
  A lot of the tendencies and currents of the times favored the building up of an aristocracy based on the ownership of city property.
  As for widespread sentiment opposing the decision, the Court had a duty to rise above raging currents of public opinion.
  Rather than operating from a critical distance, I seem to be swayed by the emotional currents of events like the soccer and music.
  Indeed, the currents of public opinion are running the other way.
  It took Trotsky to persuade him that the rising must be called in the name of the soviets, which represented the different currents of the workers' movement.
  He was thereby only following the prevailing current of public opinion.
  The general anarcho-syndicalist currents were leading radical forces until the first war.
  Synonyms
  course, progress, progression, flow, tide, movement
  trend, drift, direction, tendency, swing, tenor

Origin

Middle English (in the adjective sense ‘running, flowing’): from Old French corant ‘running’, from courre ‘run’, from Latin currere ‘run’.

词汇	current
释义	Definition of current in English: current adjective ˈkʌr(ə)ntˈkərənt 1Belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now. 当前的，现时的 keep abreast of current events 随时了解时事动态。 I started my current job in 2001 我是在1994年开始做现在这个工作的。 Example sentencesExamples The prospectus doesn't forecast what will happen in the current year. One current trend is to make the skirt panels extremely stiff. Like all problems, however, the current perception of incompetence presents an opportunity. Most often people indulge in a fight not over a current event but about something that happened in the past. What use was learning about the past when there were much more current situations to deal with? The most current bibliographical entry dates from June 2003, the year before publication. This was done in the current research by presenting events (bets on the toss of a coin) in blocks. I'm not expected to be well-educated on modern politics and current events. The decline of the dollar is a warning sign that current economic trends cannot continue. Has anyone bothered to ask the population at large how safe they feel in the current police presence? Itching to begin new projects while current ones still sit unfinished? He said the current services that were present were insufficient because of a lack of funding. The orchestra is made up of both past and current students from the Presentation College. However, they obviously did not do enough because if there was not a serious problem the current turn of events would not have happened. The previews I read were all excited by this new idea technique of treating history as current affairs. I wish the producers would realise that current affairs is not the only show in town. Most current accounts pay a pitiful rate of interest, usually only a fraction of 1 %. He is not sure whether this legislation does dovetail neatly into the current situation. Unlike other diagnostic criteria, the pulse is very reactive and reflects the most current state of the individual. He also updated the branch on the current happenings in the county. Synonyms contemporary, present-day, present, contemporaneous, ongoing topical, in the news, live, alive, happening, burning modern, latest, popular, fashionable, in fashion, in vogue, up to date, up to the minute French de nos jours informal trendy, now, in 1.1 In common or general use. 通用的，通行的，流行的 the other meaning of the word is still current 该词的另一个意思仍然通用。 Example sentencesExamples A common current myth about American English is that it is being ruined by mass media. The attitude current at the time was that they were an inferior race. Synonyms prevalent, prevailing, common, in general use, accepted, in circulation, circulating, going around, doing/making the rounds, popular, widespread, rife, about talked of, on everyone's lips, bruited about noun ˈkʌr(ə)ntˈkərənt 1A body of water or air moving in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement. 流；水流；气流 ocean currents 洋流。 Example sentencesExamples Air movement and thermal currents transport dust and microbial particulates; particles that become airborne then can settle on open wounds. A stream looks like it's flowing in one direction, but there are little eddies and currents that move water in different directions. For example, I have assumed that the animal is active only for twelve hours each day, and I have ignored any effects of winds and water currents. She would learn the secrets of the ocean's past, hear them whispered through the currents and waters. Many huge currents of water move through the oceans often aided by the winds. The experimental tandem mission data will help scientists better detect and understand ocean currents, tides and eddies. Elsewhere, we witness fluid arabesques that suggest currents of wind or water and a grove of green trees, their leaves knotted into high relief. Also significant were crisscrossing layers of sediment in the rock that revealed they formed beneath currents of moving water. Winter changes abruptly into summer, borne by warm winds and the arrival of the Climate Stream, a shift of ocean currents that brings warm water to the land. The normal situation has giant ocean currents flowing anticlockwise around the South Pacific Ocean. You must pick your time well, as she is often swept by strong tidal currents. An apparition of misty light, the passage suggests currents of wind and water but the composition resists settling into the pictorial vocabulary of landscape. In the underwater world, the lateral system sensed the currents of water surrounding the fishes' bodies. The data will cover things such as water currents, wind direction and temperatures. It is caused by a slowing down of the Atlantic Conveyor, the current which circulates water in the ocean. Thoughts swirled through her mind like currents of water rushing down a section of rapids. It glittered and it looked almost as if a current of water ran through it. Driven by forces such as wind, tides, and gravity, currents keep our oceans in constant motion. It is so big it has blocked wind and water currents that break up ice floes in McMurdo Sound during the Antarctic summer. Formed in the process of oceans, by wind and tide and currents, layers of water all lapping over each other, you rise in the dance of water and eventually fulfill your destiny and crash onto the shore. Synonyms steady flow, stream, backdraught, slipstream airstream, thermal, updraught, draught undercurrent, undertow, tide 2A flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles. 电流 this completes the circuit so that a current flows to the lamp magnetic fields are produced by currents flowing in the cables Example sentencesExamples Small currents of electricity began to surge around him, coming off of his body. When these currents flow across the circuitry that separates the rover chassis and power bus return, they create a small voltage that is measured and reported in telemetry. Their faces light up and eyes twinkle as if there's a current of electricity swirling inside them. Electric currents result from inducing the movement of electrons within the solid. In this context the resistivity of a rock means its resistance to the flow of an electrical current. The direct analogy to voltage and current is the flow of water through a hose. To give a bit more detail, the motion of the air causes a skin membrane in the inner ear to vibrate, and those vibrations are converted into tiny electrical currents that flow into the brain. Owing to this resistance, an electric field has to drive the electrons in order to maintain the current. Her hands juddered at her sides as if charged with an electric current. The very small particles stream through wires and circuits creating currents of electricity. When a current flows through a wire a circular magnetic field is created around it. Due to certain conditions of the earth beneath dwellings, electrical currents are caused to flow, thus producing a magnetic field that extends into the dwelling space. This interaction causes giant electrical currents to flow above our heads of around one million amps! The shock wave and cloud smashed into the Earth's magnetic field, causing a huge increase in the flow of invisible electric currents in space and in our atmosphere. However, the magnet exists only when the current is flowing from the battery. The current then reverses and flows in a negative direction for the remaining milliseconds of the electrical discharge. It's a peculiar sort of pain, like a current of electricity is grinding between the broken ends of bone. Electrocardiography records the flow of electrical currents of the heart as they move away or toward a specific electrode. Experts used to think it was just a matter of the air being heated by particles and electric currents in the regions around the poles, where auroras occur. Turbulence within the super-hot plasma has a nasty habit of transporting the heat out as fast as colossal electric currents and particle beams can shovel it in. 2.1 A quantity representing the rate of flow of electric charge, usually measured in amperes. 电流强度（通常用安培计算） at high currents there is wasteful power dissipation Example sentencesExamples As discussed previously, voltage is measured in volts, and current is measured in amps. Obtaining adequate power requires total currents greater than 10,000 amperes. These tactics can modify the magnitude and phase relationship between voltages and currents in the power system network. A first detector detects an average of the AC current applied to the charge member. Then measure the voltage and current by attaching your volt meter to the two pieces of metal. 3The general tendency or course of events or opinion. 趋势，潮流，倾向 the student movement formed a distinct current of protest 学生运动构成了一个独立的抗议潮流。 Example sentencesExamples The courts' response is generally slow, often several years behind the current of popular opinion. None of this will really be surprising to readers, as he has been writing for longer than most about the demographic and economic currents driving these events. It is argued that attention to both these philosophical currents is important in order maximize the value of electronic delivery. One of the things you do is write poetry for yourself and of course, one of the themes you explore in that poetry is the changing social currents. Though rap music has produced a variety of sub-genres in the last 25 years, it has recently divided itself into two general currents. Rather than operating from a critical distance, I seem to be swayed by the emotional currents of events like the soccer and music. This is why there is not a people in which these three currents of opinion do not coexist, turning man toward divergent and even contradictory directions. It took Trotsky to persuade him that the rising must be called in the name of the soviets, which represented the different currents of the workers' movement. They also provide a glimpse of the powerful social currents that shape the course of language usage in society. As for widespread sentiment opposing the decision, the Court had a duty to rise above raging currents of public opinion. He was thereby only following the prevailing current of public opinion. It is not always a reliable guide to the broader political currents coursing through the Continent. In this context, it is possible to detect two strong currents in public opinion that could be driving the next sea change in the world's perception of America. A lot of the tendencies and currents of the times favored the building up of an aristocracy based on the ownership of city property. Like ocean waters, intellectual currents are always in motion. The general anarcho-syndicalist currents were leading radical forces until the first war. Indeed, the currents of public opinion are running the other way. Activists from Islamist, secular, communist and socialist currents from across the globe sat together sharing their views, and absorbed in friendly conversation. In Europe at least, there are three distinct currents. The idea that at any given moment living revolutionary parties contain all sorts of currents, tendencies and trends, not all of them revolutionary, some ultra-left, is hardly new. Synonyms course, progress, progression, flow, tide, movement trend, drift, direction, tendency, swing, tenor Origin Middle English (in the adjective sense 'running, flowing'): from Old French corant 'running', from courre 'run', from Latin currere 'run'. cursor from Middle English: Nowadays we call the movable indicator on our computer screen the cursor. In medieval English a cursor was a running messenger: it is a borrowing of the Latin word for ‘a runner’, and comes from currere ‘to run’. From the late 16th century cursor became the term for a sliding part of a slide rule or other instrument, marked with a line for pinpointing the position on a scale that you want, the forerunner of the computing sense. Currere is the source of very many English words including course (Middle English) something you run along; concourse (Late Middle English) originally a crowd who had ‘run together’; current (Middle English) originally meaning ‘running, flowing’; discursive (late 16th century) running away from the point; excursion (late 16th century) running out to see things; intercourse (Late Middle English) originally an exchange running between people; and precursor (Late Middle English) one who goes before; as well as supplying the cur part of concur (Late Middle English); incur (Late Middle English); occur (Late Middle English) (from ob- ‘against’); and recur (Middle English). Rhymes blackcurrant, concurrent, currant, occurrent, redcurrant Definition of current in US English: current adjectiveˈkərəntˈkərənt 1Belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now. 当前的，现时的 keep abreast of current events 随时了解时事动态。 I started my current job last year 我是在1994年开始做现在这个工作的。 Example sentencesExamples I'm not expected to be well-educated on modern politics and current events. Like all problems, however, the current perception of incompetence presents an opportunity. The most current bibliographical entry dates from June 2003, the year before publication. The orchestra is made up of both past and current students from the Presentation College. The prospectus doesn't forecast what will happen in the current year. One current trend is to make the skirt panels extremely stiff. Unlike other diagnostic criteria, the pulse is very reactive and reflects the most current state of the individual. What use was learning about the past when there were much more current situations to deal with? Has anyone bothered to ask the population at large how safe they feel in the current police presence? He said the current services that were present were insufficient because of a lack of funding. The decline of the dollar is a warning sign that current economic trends cannot continue. The previews I read were all excited by this new idea technique of treating history as current affairs. I wish the producers would realise that current affairs is not the only show in town. Itching to begin new projects while current ones still sit unfinished? Most current accounts pay a pitiful rate of interest, usually only a fraction of 1 %. This was done in the current research by presenting events (bets on the toss of a coin) in blocks. He is not sure whether this legislation does dovetail neatly into the current situation. However, they obviously did not do enough because if there was not a serious problem the current turn of events would not have happened. Most often people indulge in a fight not over a current event but about something that happened in the past. He also updated the branch on the current happenings in the county. Synonyms contemporary, present-day, present, contemporaneous, ongoing 1.1 In common or general use. 通用的，通行的，流行的 the other meaning of the word is still current 该词的另一个意思仍然通用。 Example sentencesExamples A common current myth about American English is that it is being ruined by mass media. The attitude current at the time was that they were an inferior race. Synonyms prevalent, prevailing, common, in general use, accepted, in circulation, circulating, going around, doing the rounds, making the rounds, popular, widespread, rife, about nounˈkərəntˈkərənt 1A body of water or air moving in a definite direction, especially through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement. 流；水流；气流 ocean currents 洋流。 Example sentencesExamples Also significant were crisscrossing layers of sediment in the rock that revealed they formed beneath currents of moving water. In the underwater world, the lateral system sensed the currents of water surrounding the fishes' bodies. It is so big it has blocked wind and water currents that break up ice floes in McMurdo Sound during the Antarctic summer. You must pick your time well, as she is often swept by strong tidal currents. Winter changes abruptly into summer, borne by warm winds and the arrival of the Climate Stream, a shift of ocean currents that brings warm water to the land. Air movement and thermal currents transport dust and microbial particulates; particles that become airborne then can settle on open wounds. The experimental tandem mission data will help scientists better detect and understand ocean currents, tides and eddies. She would learn the secrets of the ocean's past, hear them whispered through the currents and waters. Driven by forces such as wind, tides, and gravity, currents keep our oceans in constant motion. It is caused by a slowing down of the Atlantic Conveyor, the current which circulates water in the ocean. Formed in the process of oceans, by wind and tide and currents, layers of water all lapping over each other, you rise in the dance of water and eventually fulfill your destiny and crash onto the shore. For example, I have assumed that the animal is active only for twelve hours each day, and I have ignored any effects of winds and water currents. Many huge currents of water move through the oceans often aided by the winds. Elsewhere, we witness fluid arabesques that suggest currents of wind or water and a grove of green trees, their leaves knotted into high relief. Thoughts swirled through her mind like currents of water rushing down a section of rapids. A stream looks like it's flowing in one direction, but there are little eddies and currents that move water in different directions. The data will cover things such as water currents, wind direction and temperatures. It glittered and it looked almost as if a current of water ran through it. The normal situation has giant ocean currents flowing anticlockwise around the South Pacific Ocean. An apparition of misty light, the passage suggests currents of wind and water but the composition resists settling into the pictorial vocabulary of landscape. Synonyms steady flow, stream, backdraught, slipstream 1.1 A flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles. 电流 Example sentencesExamples When a current flows through a wire a circular magnetic field is created around it. The very small particles stream through wires and circuits creating currents of electricity. Electric currents result from inducing the movement of electrons within the solid. The current then reverses and flows in a negative direction for the remaining milliseconds of the electrical discharge. Due to certain conditions of the earth beneath dwellings, electrical currents are caused to flow, thus producing a magnetic field that extends into the dwelling space. When these currents flow across the circuitry that separates the rover chassis and power bus return, they create a small voltage that is measured and reported in telemetry. Experts used to think it was just a matter of the air being heated by particles and electric currents in the regions around the poles, where auroras occur. Their faces light up and eyes twinkle as if there's a current of electricity swirling inside them. In this context the resistivity of a rock means its resistance to the flow of an electrical current. This interaction causes giant electrical currents to flow above our heads of around one million amps! Her hands juddered at her sides as if charged with an electric current. To give a bit more detail, the motion of the air causes a skin membrane in the inner ear to vibrate, and those vibrations are converted into tiny electrical currents that flow into the brain. Turbulence within the super-hot plasma has a nasty habit of transporting the heat out as fast as colossal electric currents and particle beams can shovel it in. Small currents of electricity began to surge around him, coming off of his body. The shock wave and cloud smashed into the Earth's magnetic field, causing a huge increase in the flow of invisible electric currents in space and in our atmosphere. Owing to this resistance, an electric field has to drive the electrons in order to maintain the current. However, the magnet exists only when the current is flowing from the battery. Electrocardiography records the flow of electrical currents of the heart as they move away or toward a specific electrode. It's a peculiar sort of pain, like a current of electricity is grinding between the broken ends of bone. The direct analogy to voltage and current is the flow of water through a hose. 1.2 A quantity representing the rate of flow of electric charge, usually measured in amperes. 电流强度（通常用安培计算） Example sentencesExamples As discussed previously, voltage is measured in volts, and current is measured in amps. These tactics can modify the magnitude and phase relationship between voltages and currents in the power system network. A first detector detects an average of the AC current applied to the charge member. Then measure the voltage and current by attaching your volt meter to the two pieces of metal. Obtaining adequate power requires total currents greater than 10,000 amperes. 1.3 The general tendency or course of events or opinion. 趋势，潮流，倾向 the student movement formed a distinct current of protest 学生运动构成了一个独立的抗议潮流。 Example sentencesExamples Like ocean waters, intellectual currents are always in motion. In this context, it is possible to detect two strong currents in public opinion that could be driving the next sea change in the world's perception of America. One of the things you do is write poetry for yourself and of course, one of the themes you explore in that poetry is the changing social currents. It is argued that attention to both these philosophical currents is important in order maximize the value of electronic delivery. This is why there is not a people in which these three currents of opinion do not coexist, turning man toward divergent and even contradictory directions. They also provide a glimpse of the powerful social currents that shape the course of language usage in society. The courts' response is generally slow, often several years behind the current of popular opinion. Though rap music has produced a variety of sub-genres in the last 25 years, it has recently divided itself into two general currents. The idea that at any given moment living revolutionary parties contain all sorts of currents, tendencies and trends, not all of them revolutionary, some ultra-left, is hardly new. Activists from Islamist, secular, communist and socialist currents from across the globe sat together sharing their views, and absorbed in friendly conversation. None of this will really be surprising to readers, as he has been writing for longer than most about the demographic and economic currents driving these events. In Europe at least, there are three distinct currents. It is not always a reliable guide to the broader political currents coursing through the Continent. A lot of the tendencies and currents of the times favored the building up of an aristocracy based on the ownership of city property. As for widespread sentiment opposing the decision, the Court had a duty to rise above raging currents of public opinion. Rather than operating from a critical distance, I seem to be swayed by the emotional currents of events like the soccer and music. Indeed, the currents of public opinion are running the other way. It took Trotsky to persuade him that the rising must be called in the name of the soviets, which represented the different currents of the workers' movement. He was thereby only following the prevailing current of public opinion. The general anarcho-syndicalist currents were leading radical forces until the first war. Synonyms course, progress, progression, flow, tide, movement trend, drift, direction, tendency, swing, tenor Origin Middle English (in the adjective sense ‘running, flowing’): from Old French corant ‘running’, from courre ‘run’, from Latin currere ‘run’.
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