随大流 (隨大流)
suí dà liú
Pinyin
Definition
随大流 (隨大流)
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- to follow the crowd
- going with the tide
Character Decomposition
Related Words (20)
- 1 big
- 2 huge
- 3 large
- 4 major
- 5 great
- 6 wide
- 7 deep
- 8 older (than)
- 9 oldest
- 10 eldest
- 11 greatly
- 12 very much
- 13 (dialect) father
- 14 father's elder or younger brother
- 1 very auspicious
- 2 extremely lucky
- 1 everyone
- 2 influential family
- 3 great expert
- 1 prize
- 2 award
- 1 liar's dice (dice game)
Idioms (20)
不识大体
- 1 to fail to see the larger issue (idiom)
- 2 to fail to grasp the big picture
久仰大名
- 1 I have been looking forward to meeting you for a long time (idiom)
人往高处走,水往低处流
- 1 man seeks his way up just as water seeks its way down (idiom)
- 2 one should constantly strive to make progress
付之东流
- 1 to commit to the waters (idiom); to lose sth irrevocably
以小挤大
- 1 minor projects eclipse major ones (idiom)
Sample Sentences
土豪就好了。我们的同学朋友都赶着这两年结婚,普通同学就随大流送个六百,关系好的至少得一千。
I wish I were a big shot. My classmates and friends have all rushed to get married recently. For regular classmates, I've got to follow the crowd and give 600. For people I'm close to, I've got to give at least 1,000.
你有所不知,现在中国股市有时就像个大赌场。像我妈这样的普通老百姓,哪会什么理智地分析啊,只不过是随大流罢了,一听说牛市来了就盲目追涨,我真担心她一不小心就会吃亏。要知道,那点钱可是她多年的积蓄啊。
There's some stuff you don't understand. Sometimes these days, the Chinese stock market is like a big casino. What kind of financial analysis would an ordinary person like my mom do? All she can do is follow the crowd. As soon as she heard it was a bull market, she just started blindly looking for gains。 I'm really worried that as soon as she gets careless, she could lose her shirt! You have to understand, she's saved that little nest egg for many years.