ebbs

英 [ebz]

美 [ebz]

n.  落潮; 退潮
v.  退; 落; 衰弱; 衰退; 减退
ebb的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• VERB （潮水或海水）退，落
  When the tide or the seaebbs, its level gradually falls.
  1. 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。
• N-COUNT 退潮（期）;落潮（期）
  The ebbor theebbtide 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.
  1. ...the spring ebb tide...
     春季退潮
  2. 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。
• VERB 衰退;减退;减弱
  If someone's life, support, or feelingebbs, it becomes weaker and gradually disappears.
  1. ...as a man's physical strength ebbs...
     随着人体力的衰退
  2. Were there occasions when enthusiasm ebbed?
     会有热情减退的时候么？
  3. Ebb awaymeans the same asebb.
     ebb away 同 ebb
  4. His little girl's life ebbed away...
     他小女儿的生命一点一点流逝。
  5. Their popular support is ebbing away.
     他们的人气正在衰退。
• PHRASE 处于低潮;处于衰退状态
  If someone or something isat a low ebborattheirlowest ebb, they are not being very successful or profitable.
  1. ...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
  2. The Government's popularity is at its lowest ebb.
     政府的支持率跌到了最低点。
• PHRASE 起伏;消长；盛衰
  You can useebb and flowto describe the way that something repeatedly increases and decreases or rises and falls.
  1. ...the ebb and flow of feeling and moods.
     感觉和情绪的起伏

双语例句

• VCL provides good scheduling mechanism to identify the ebbs and flows of campus activities.
  VCL提供了优秀的调度机制来识别校园内各种活动的变化。
• A typical course, in love, will explore why relationships are so complicated and why attraction ebbs and flows.
  标准（standard）的爱情课程将会推究情感关系（Relationship）为什么如此复杂（complicated），以及相互之间的吸引为什么起起落落。
• This is a mistake. For the elevation of the G20 was also a tacit acknowledgment of two important facts, both of which remain true, even as the crisis ebbs.
  这是一个错误，因为g20的崛起也是对两项重要事实的默认，尽管危机正在逐步消退，但这两项事实目前依然成立。
• As the control beam's intensity ebbs, the remaining signal light is absorbed, and the increasingly atomic polariton slows even more.
  一旦控制光的强度逐渐下降，剩馀的讯号光就给吸收了，原子极化愈来愈强的极化声子速度减慢得更多。
• British nationalism ebbs and flows in its intensity.
  英国国家主义的强度时高时低。
• Despite their ebbs and flows, the currents of history have decisively moved in a single direction, he said.
  他说，历史的潮流有涨有落，但毫无疑问朝着一个方向前进。
• At best this bonding phase ebbs into disappointment.
  最好的情况，这种关系阶段衰退为失望。
• The tide ebbs and flows twice in 24 hours. We set sail at high tide.
  潮水每24小时涨落两次。我们在涨潮时起航。
• Now you are becoming one with the water, and the fluid inside your body begins to become a tiny powerful ocean that ebbs and flows throughout your system.
  现在你渐渐与海水融为一体，体内的液体开始变成很微小却能量巨大的海洋，起伏遍及你周身的系统。
• After the tide ebbs, exposed to the sun for three or five days, the dried salt mud can be used to make the "brine".
  大潮退去，经过三五天的暴晒，干燥的盐泥就可以用来制“卤水”了。