How do you say "torrent"

[Ari 桑]

As in, bit torrent etc. When I search for 急流, I don't seem to get anything related to torrents as we know them. Can anyone help me out?

[zhwj]

Search on Baidu for bt. Sometimes it's called 变态, but that also means "abnormal" or "freak" so you'll get lots of results you don't want if you use that as a keyword.

[littleknight23]

激流,ji2 liu2 , which has the same pronunciation of 急流,

or 山洪 shan1 hong2

[littleknight23]

As zhwj gives a completedly different reply, I am not sure that we are talking about the same thing

[skylee]

"torrent" is 激流 / 山洪, "bit torrent" is not.

For "bit torrent", consider "比特流".

[Ari 桑]

比特流 seems to make sense, and it looks like simply using "bt" gets plenty of results as well, thanks guys!

[littleknight23]

I see.

thank you a lot

[rootfool]

torrent=种子 in bt.

And there is not translation of bt.People just call it in english.

[skylee]

torrent=种子 in bt.

And there is not translation of bt.People just call it in english.

I see. Then what is 比特流?

[rootfool]

I see. Then what is 比特流?

Hmm,I had seen the web page that you quote.But all the poeple I know are all using "bt" instead of "比特流".Of course, "bt" means "变态" too,but it's easy for chinese to distinguish it's meaning.When I was a student,my teacher told me "比特流" is "bits stream(?I don't exactly know how to say this word in computerese )".

In any case,this is just an personal opinion.

[grayedge]

I am chinese native speaker.

I agree with rootfool, 比特流 is 'mostly means 'bit stream'. in my opinion, there is no exactly corresponding chinese word for 'bit torrent', we just use the acronym 'bt', and we say the .torrent file is 种子文件 of 'bt'. and because 'BT' is also the acronym of 'BianTai'(变态) in Hanyu pinyin, we must distinguish the meaning of 'bt' in accordance with the context, in the sentence '某人很bt'(or '某人是个大bt')，'bt' means abnormal; but in phrases 'bt下载'，'bt种子'(always relate to download from internet), it's means 'bit torrent'

[文言訓開班]

变态 is japanese and anything in the canton region of china or therebouts understood as 好色, or pervert.

[skylee]

变态 is japanese and anything in the canton region of china or therebouts understood as 好色, or pervert.

This is interesting.