英汉词典

current 基本解释

• adj. 现在的；流通的，通用的；最近的；草写的
• n. （水，气，电）流；趋势；涌流
• n. (Current)人名；(英)柯伦特

current 词态变化

current 中文词源

来自PIE*kers, 跑，词源同car,course.

current 英文词源

current

current: [13] Current literally means ‘running’. It comes from Old French corant, the present participle of courre ‘run’, which in turn was descended from Latin currere ‘run’. This has been traced back to a prehistoric root denoting ‘swift movement’, which probably also produced car, career, carry, and charge. The Latin verb itself has a wide range of descendants in English, from the obvious courier [16] to the more heavily disguised corridor [16] (originally literally ‘a run’), occur and succour.

For the English offspring of its past participle cursus see COURSE. The sense ‘of the present time’ (first recorded in the 17th century) comes from the notion of ‘running in time’ or ‘being in progress’.
=> car, carry, charge, corridor, courier, course, occur, succour

current (adj.)

c. 1300, "running, flowing," from Old French corant "running, lively, eager, swift," present participle of corre "to run," from Latin currere "to run, move quickly" (of persons or things), from PIE *kers- "to run" (cognates: Greek -khouros "running," Lithuanian karsiu "go quickly," Old Norse horskr "swift," Old Irish and Middle Welsh carr "cart, wagon," Breton karr "chariot," Welsh carrog "torrent"). Meaning "prevalent, generally accepted" is from 1560s.

current (n.)

late 14c., from Middle French corant (Modern French courant), from Old French corant (see current (adj.)). Applied 1747 to the flow of electrical force.

current 英文释义

1. a flow of electricity through a conductor;

"the current was measured in amperes"

2. a steady flow (usually from natural causes);

"the raft floated downstream on the current"

"he felt a stream of air"

3. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas;

"two streams of development run through American history"

"stream of consciousness"

"the flow of thought"

"the current of history"

current 同义词解析

modern, contemporary, current, recent, present, up-to-date

这些形容词均有"现代的，当代的"之意。

modern： 指现代或近代，时期可长可短。也可指新颖、时髦的。

contemporary： 仅指当今这个时代，不涉及任何过去的时代。但可表示不同的人或物存在于同一时代。

current： 指目前存在和发生的。

recent： 表示新近的，最近的，时间的长短依据所修饰的人或物而定。

present： 是这些词中语气最强的一个。指现在正发生、起作用的。

up-to-date： 一般用于非正式场合，指很时新、能反映当前的最新发展。

trend, tendency, current

这些名词均含"趋势，倾向"之意。

trend： 指事物发展总的方向、倾向或趋势。

tendency： 指固有或习得的倾向性，强调没有外来的影响或干扰。

current： 指向某一方面发展或在趋向中行动。

current 双语例句

1. The tidal stream or current gradually decreases in the shallows.

浅滩上的潮水逐渐退去。

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2. He must sell the house for the current market value.

他必须以目前的市价出售这座房子。

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3. Current employment laws will be changed to reward effort and punish laziness.

现行雇佣法要变，要奖勤罚懒。

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4. The current sole superpower is far from being a disinterested observer.

当前唯一的超级大国远不是一个公正的旁观者。

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5. Stimulate the site of greatest pain with a small negative current.

以微弱负电流刺激疼得最厉害的部位。

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current 实用场景例句

current prices

时价

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a budget for the current year

今年的预算

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your current employer

你现在的雇主

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words that are no longer current

已不再通用的词

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He swam to the shore against a strong current .

他逆着急流游向岸边。

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Birds use warm air currents to help their flight.

鸟利用暖气流助飞。

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a 15 amp electrical current

15安培的电流

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Ministers are worried by this current of anti-government feeling.

部长们对这股反政府情绪感到担忧。

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Under normal conditions, the ocean currents of the tropical Pacific travel from east to west...

在正常情况下，太平洋的热带洋流自东向西流。

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The couple were swept away by the strong current.

这对夫妻被巨大的水流卷走了。

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I felt a current of cool air blowing in my face.

我觉得脸上有一阵冷风吹过。

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A powerful electric current is passed through a piece of graphite.

给一块石墨通入强电流。

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Each party represents a distinct current of thought...

每个党派代表一种不同的思潮。

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A strong current of nationalism runs through ideology and politics in the Arab world.

一股强烈的民族主义思潮涌入阿拉伯世界的思想体系和政治体系。

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The current situation is very different to that in 1990...

当前的形势与1990年截然不同。

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He plans to repeal a number of current policies...

他计划废除一些当前的政策。

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Current thinking suggests that toxins only have a small part to play in the build up of cellulite...

目前普遍认为，毒素对皮下脂肪团堆积影响不大。

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This custom was still current in the late 1960s.

这种习俗在20世纪60年代末仍然很普遍。

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Electric current is often powerful enough to kill a man.

电流常强得足以致命.

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The current from these parallel generators will add up to make a total flow of 500 amperes.

这些并联的发电机所产生的电流累计在一起,总电流达到500安培.

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The book provides a thorough critique of current theories.

那本书对当今理论予以全面透彻的评论.

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There is a story about her in the current number.

最近一期上有关于她的故事.

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Those who let themselves be guided by the current course of events are real heroes.

识时务者为俊杰.

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The machine will start running as soon as the electric current is turned on.

电流一接通,机器就立刻开始运转.

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The adventure changed the whole current of his life.

那场奇遇改变了他人生的方向.

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The current had a northeasterly set.

水朝东北方流去.

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The swimmer was striving against the current.

游泳者正在和激浪搏斗.

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