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

• Its immense shale-gas potential might make it even less willing to pay up, inclining it to depend less on pipeline gas and to take the risk that it can smooth out ebbs and flows through spot markets.
  因为有大量页岩气的蕴藏量，中国甚至都不大愿意付清欠款了。倾向于减少依赖运输的天然气，而去冒险通过在现货市场进行交易来顺利度过起伏期。
• 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。
• Economists see little immediate risk of Japan entering a deflationary spiral, in which price declines accelerate as demand drops and economic activity ebbs.
  经济学家们认为，日本并没有面临陷入通货紧缩漩涡的紧迫威胁；在那种情况下，随着需求萎缩和经济活动放缓，物价会加速下跌。
• It has no front line but ebbs and flows through the countryside like an ocean's tide.
  战争没有前钱，就像海洋中的浪潮在全国时起时落。
• 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。
• After you are here for a couple of weeks, real Japan kind of ebbs away and that illusion, that the whole country looks like this, begins to creep back, he says.
  当你在这里生活数周之后，真实的日本便渐渐隐退，那种整个世界都是如此的幻觉开始慢慢蔓延出来，他说道。
• Ebbs said the institution wants to creatively develop programs to make maintenance training faster, more effective and cheaper.
  该机构表示，希望创造性研发程序，让维护培训更为快捷、更为经济有效。
• Especially of the schizophrenia have a relapse for many times, the mind that causes a patient extremely easily ebbs, till gawkish.
  尤其是精神分裂症的多次复发，极易导致患者的精神衰退，直至痴呆。
• Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.
  我们的磐石是基督，涨落的不是磐石，乃是我们魂中的海潮。
• These are short-term ebbs which we see from time to time, he said.
  这不过是我们时不时会看到的短期回落，他说。