ebb
vi. (指潮水)退; 跌落; 减少; 衰落
n. 退潮; 落潮; 衰退; 减少
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。
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。
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?
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。
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
1. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
2. the outward flow of the tide
1. flow back or recede;
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;
at a low ebb
处于低潮,处于衰退期
ebb and flow
涨落;兴衰;消长
Business is at a low ebb.
生意处于低潮.
Business is at rather a low ebb.
商业颇不景气.
Morale was at low ebb.
当时士气低落.
Today everybody is in high spirits and no one is in low ebb.
今天大家都兴高采烈,没有一个情绪低落的.
There is some evidence that dishonesty may ebb and flow.
有迹象表明,不诚实行为可能有起有伏.