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ebb
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n.

  • 易混淆的单词：EBB  

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1. VERB （潮水或海水）退，落 When the tide or the sea ebbs, its level gradually falls. 

  • When the tide ebbs it's a rock pool inhabited by crustaceans.

    退潮时，它便成为甲壳动物居住的岩石区潮水潭。

2. N-COUNT 退潮（期）;落潮（期） The ebb or the ebb tide is one of the regular periods, usually two per day, when the sea gradually falls to a lower level as the tide moves away from the land. 

  • ...the spring ebb tide...

    春季退潮

  • We decided to leave on the ebb at six o'clock next morning.

    我们决定第二天早晨6点钟趁退潮时离开。

3. VERB 衰退;减退;减弱 If someone's life, support, or feeling ebbs, it becomes weaker and gradually disappears. 

  • ...as a man's physical strength ebbs...

    随着人体力的衰退

  • Were there occasions when enthusiasm ebbed?

    会有热情减退的时候么？

  • Ebb away means the same as ebb.ebb away 同 ebb

    • His little girl's life ebbed away...

      他小女儿的生命一点一点流逝。

    • Their popular support is ebbing away.

      他们的人气正在衰退。

4. PHRASE 处于低潮;处于衰退状态 If someone or something is at a low ebb or at their lowest ebb, they are not being very successful or profitable. 

  • ...a time when everyone is tired and at a low ebb...

    每个人都疲惫不堪、处于低潮的一段时间

  • The Government's popularity is at its lowest ebb.

    政府的支持率跌到了最低点。

5. PHRASE 起伏;消长；盛衰 You can use ebb and flow to describe the way that something repeatedly increases and decreases or rises and falls. 

  • ...the ebb and flow of feeling and moods.

    感觉和情绪的起伏

Noun

1. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

2. the outward flow of the tide

Verb

1. flow back or recede;

  • "the tides ebbed at noon"

2. hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb

3. fall away or decline;

  • "The patient's strength ebbed away"

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  • 1.落潮
  • 2.又称 :落潮(ebb tide )
1. Fishing boats were standing down with the ebb.
渔船趁着落潮出航。

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2. His fortune was beginning to ebb.
他的资产开始减少了。

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3. His fortunes began to ebb.
他的家产渐渐衰落起来。

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4. My luck is on the ebb.
我的运气不好。

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5. Private and public virtues were at the lowest ebb.
公德与私德均在衰落之中。

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6. The ebb and flow of the sea is certainly a sight to behold.
海潮的涨落确实是个奇观。

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7. The flood and ebb tides alternates with each other.
涨潮和落潮交替更迭。

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8. The tide is on the ebb.
正在退潮。

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9. They swam till the tide began to ebb.
他们一直游到开始退潮。

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