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Ebb V English Dutch Root Eb V.退潮;衰退 英

单词 ebb
音标 [eb]
解释 v.退潮;衰退
红宝书 【英】 v. 退潮(to flow back; recede);衰退(decline; wane)
【例】 Water washed up on the shore , then slowly ebbed away. The politician's popularity has ebbed.
字源 ebb (n.)
Old English ebba "ebb, low tide," perhaps from Proto-Germanic *abjon (cognates: Old Frisian ebba, Old Saxon ebbiunga, Middle Dutch ebbe, Dutch eb, German Ebbe), from *ab-, from PIE root *apo- "off, away" (see apo-). Figurative sense of "decline, decay" is c.1400.
ebb (v.)
Old English ebbian, from the root of ebb (n.). Related: Ebbed; ebbing.
不择手段背单词 v. 退潮 = recede; 衰退 = decline = wane
【记】读: 爱波. 虽然爱的波浪在我们这一代有越演越烈之趋势, 但那是时间上的提前, 而非强度的增高; 尤其是对于考G一族, 更是需要降降温, 退退潮, 专心于本职工作.
趣味全助记 【记】近于abate;音:哀悲,哀兵,悲哀的士兵士气衰落→衰退;音: 矮波,矮小的波浪→退潮;音:矮泊,停泊在海中的船矮下去,因为退潮了

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