高潮 gāo cháo high tide / high water / upsurge / peak of activity / climax (of a story, a competition etc) / to have an orgasm 来潮 來潮 lái cháo (of water) to rise / rising tide / (of women) to get one's period syn 时不我待 時不我待 shí bù wǒ dài (idiom) time and tide wait for no man syn 跟风 跟風 gēn fēng to go with the tide / to blindly follow the crowd / to follow the trend 人潮 rén cháo a tide of people syn 大潮 dà cháo spring tide / (fig.) momentous social change syn 思潮 sī cháo tide of thought / way of thinking characteristic of a historical period / Zeitgeist syn 低潮 dī cháo low tide / low ebb 水涨船高 水漲船高 shuǐ zhǎng chuán gāo the tide rises, the boat floats (idiom) / fig. to change with the overall trend / to develop according to the situation syn 力挽狂澜 力挽狂瀾 lì wǎn kuáng lán to pull strongly against a crazy tide (idiom) / fig. to try hard to save a desperate crisis syn 反败为胜 反敗為勝 fǎn bài wéi shèng to turn defeat into victory (idiom) / to turn the tide 退潮 tuì cháo (of a tide) to ebb or go out syn 红潮 紅潮 hóng cháo to blush / flush / red tide (algal bloom) / menstruation syn 涨潮 漲潮 zhǎng cháo high tide / rising tide syn 潮涌 cháo yǒng to surge like the tide 随大流 隨大流 suí dà liú to follow the crowd / going with the tide 倒行逆施 dào xíng nì shī to go against the tide (idiom) / to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things syn 倒灌 dào guàn to flow backwards (of water, because of flood, tide, wind etc) / reverse flow / to back up (sewage) syn 怒潮 nù cháo (tidal) bore / raging tide 落潮 luò cháo (of a tide) to ebb or go out syn 落 luò to fall or drop / (of the sun) to set / (of a tide) to go out / to lower / to decline or sink / to lag or fall behind / to fall onto / to rest with / to get or receive / to write down / whereabouts / settlement syn 潮位 cháo wèi tide level 岁不我与 歲不我與 suì bù wǒ yǔ Time and tide wait for no man (idiom) 逆行倒施 nì xíng dǎo shī to go against the tide (idiom) / to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things 与世俯仰 與世俯仰 yǔ shì fǔ yǎng to swim with the tide (idiom) 小潮 xiǎo cháo neap tide (the smallest tide, when moon is at first or third quarter) 朔望潮 shuò wàng cháo spring tide (biggest tide, at new moon or full moon) 上升的趋势 rising tide / tide flow 平均潮位 píng jūn cháo wèi mean tide level / half tide level 潮差 range of tide / tidal range / tide range 不随大流 不隨大流 bù suí dà liú not following the crowd / to go against the tide 最低潮 zuì dī cháo lit. low tide / fig. the lowest point (e.g. of a relationship) 防潮堤 fáng cháo dī tide embankment 顺潮 順潮 shùn cháo favorable tide 风起潮涌 風起潮涌 fēng qǐ cháo yǒng lit. wind rises, tide bubbles up / turbulent times / violent development (idiom) 潮汛 cháo xùn spring tide syn 验潮仪 yàn cháo yí tide gauge / tidal gauge 潮位水尺 cháo wèi shuǐ chǐ tide gauge / tidal gauge 波潮理论 bō cháo lǐ lùn wave and tide theory 低潮高地 low-tide elevation 潮位校正 tidal reduction / tide reducer / water level reducer 最低天文潮位 zuì dī tiān wén cháo wèi lowest astronomic tide 最高天文潮 zuì gāo tiān wén cháo highest astronomic tide 无线电潮位计 wú xiàn diàn cháo wèi jì radio tide gauge 高高潮 gāo gāo cháo higher high water, large tide 验潮站 驗潮站 yàn cháo zhàn tide gauge site 潮位站 cháo wèi zhàn tide gauge site 低潮线 低潮線 dī cháo xiàn low-water line / LW line / low-tide mark 低低潮大潮 dī dī cháo dài cháo lower low-water large tide 印度洋基准面 yìn duó yáng jī zhǔn miàn Indian spring low-water / Indian tide plane 大潮最低低潮面 dài cháo zuì dī dī cháo miàn lowest low-water spring tide 平均高高潮 píng jūn gāo gāo cháo higher high water, mean tide 潮致冰裂 cháo zhì bīng liè tide crack 潮高 tidal height / height of tide 干潮 乾潮 gān cháo low tide / low water 满潮 滿潮 mǎn cháo high tide / high water 垫底 墊底 diàn dǐ to put sth on the bottom / to eat sth to tide oneself over until mealtime / to lay the foundation / to come last in the rankings 逆行倒施 nì xíng dào shī to go against the tide (idiom) / to do things all wrong / to try to turn back history / a perverse way of doing things 随大溜 隨大溜 suí dà liù to follow the crowd / going with the tide syn 赶海 趕海 gǎn hǎi (dialect) to gather seafood at the beach while the tide is out / to comb the beach for shellfish, crabs or other marine life 