釋義
順著水流的方向推船，比喻順著某個趨勢或某種方式說話辦事。（注意：諷刺不堅持原則，隨聲附和的行為，貶義）
示例
順水推舟《歧路燈》第一○七回：“只可惜那三髯官兒不知名子，他能順水推舟，開籠放鳥，吾知此公子孫必然發旺。”
《七俠五義》第四十九回：“一伸手就要拿人。那大漢眼快，反把黃茂腕子攏住往懷裡一領，黃茂難以扎掙，便就順水推舟的爬下了。”
祖慰《被礁石劃破的水流》：既然本性難移，那我們不能來個順水推舟、就湯下麵嗎？
英文
Swim with the current;do sth. with the prevailing climate or tendency；push the boat along with the current -- make use of an opportunity to achieve one's end；make use of the favourable current situation to push matters through with little effort；push a boat in the direction of the current；turn any favourable factors to account so that the least effort would produce the results desired；
例句
順水推舟演一場西方霸強凌辱無助百姓的煽情大戲，惡意分裂這個世界。
It also hopes to dramatise the humiliation of the helpless and innocent by western powers, with the evil intention of splittingthe world.
您寶寶看來智力發育有些超前，不妨因勢利導，順水推舟。
Mental development of your baby appears to lead some might grasp this opportunity to opportunity.
順水推舟;請明白的話,我這裡列出的僅僅是建議.
Keep the ball rolling; please understand that the words I have listed here are mere suggestions.
當生活心懷歹毒地將一切都搞成了黑色幽默，我順水推舟把自己。
Harbour, do as life all into the black humour both vicious, I have done without extra effort and changed oneself into ahooligan receiving higher.
這時教師順水推舟，鼓勵他們大膽介紹，再組織孩子相互評價對方的作品，在介紹和評價中提高口語交際能力。
At this time teachers yielded to encourage them to boldly introduced, then the organization of mutual evaluation of thechild other works in the introduction and evaluation to improve oral communicative competence.
這也給參院施加了很大的壓力，就是他們的決定有可能會被邊緣化，所以我覺得“大勢不可逆”，參議員們做個順水推舟的好事的可能性很大。
This also puts great pressure on the senate, as their decision has the possibility of being sidelined, so I believe that 'thegeneral trend is not reversible', and the possibility of the senators doing the right thing and going with the flow is verygreat.
