[VERB 动词](潮水或海水)退,落 When the tide or the sea ebbs, its level gradually falls.
[V]
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。
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]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.
[usu the N]
...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。
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[VERB 动词]衰退;减退;减弱 If someone's life, support, or feeling ebbs, it becomes weaker and gradually disappears.
[V]
[V P]
[FORMAL 正式]
...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。
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[PHRASE 短语]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.
[v-link PHR]
...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。
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[PHRASE 短语]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.
[usu PHR of n]
...the ebb and flow of feeling and moods.
感觉和情绪的起伏
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ebb/eb; NAmEeb/
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ebbebbsebbedebbingnounthe ebb[usually singular ]the period of time when the sea flows away from the land 落潮;退潮◆the ebb tide退潮IDIOMthe ˌebb and ˈflow (of sth/sb)the repeated, often regular, movement from one state to another; the repeated change in level, numbers or amount 涨落;盛衰;起伏;消长◆the ebb and flow of the seasons四时更迭◆She sat in silence enjoying the ebb and flow of conversation.她默默地坐在那儿,饶有兴致地听着时高时低的谈话声。☞more at
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adj.verb1[intransitive ]( formal) (of the tidein the sea 海潮)to move away from the land 退;落SYNgo outOPP
flow
2[intransitive ]ebb(away) to become gradually weaker or less 衰弱;衰退;减退SYN
decrease
◆The pain was ebbing.疼痛逐渐减轻了。◆As night fell, our enthusiasm began to ebb away.我们的热情随着夜晚的降临而渐渐低落下来。ebb/eb; NAmEeb/
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ebb1 noun
ebb2 verb
ebbebb1 /eb/ noun
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1[singular] (also ebb tide) the flow of the sea away from the shore, when the tide goes outOPP flood tide2be at a low ebb to be in a bad state or condition: His confidence is at a low ebb.3ebb and flow a situation or state in which something increases and decreases in a kind of pattern: the ebb and flow of the conversation the ebb and flow of passengers in the station
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ebb2 verb
ebbebb2 verb [intransitive]
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1if the tide ebbs, it flows away from the shore2 (also ebb away) to gradually decrease: Linda’s enthusiasm began to ebb away.
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