N-COUNT [usually singular](人、活动、思想等的)主流,主要倾向,主要趋势 People, activities, or ideas that are part of the mainstream are regarded as the most typical, normal, and conventional because they belong to the same group or system as most others of their kind. (人、活动、思想等的)主流,主要倾向,主要趋势
...people outside the economic mainstream.
经济主流之外的人
This was the company's first step into the mainstream of scientific and commercial computing.