柯林斯詞典ebb /?b/ (ebbing,ebbed,ebbs) 1. V-I When the tide or the sea ebbs, its level gradually falls. 退潮 When the tide ebbs, you can paddle out for a mile and barely get your ankles wet. 退潮時，你可以蹚水走出1英里遠(yuǎn)而幾乎濕不到腳踝。2. N-COUNT Theebb 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. 退潮 ...the spring ebb tide. …春季的退潮。3. V-I If someone's life, support, or feeling ebbs, it becomes weaker and gradually disappears. 衰退[正式] Were there occasions when enthusiasm ebbed? 熱情會有衰退的時候嗎？4. PHRASAL VERB Ebb away means the same as . 衰退 His little girl's life ebbed away. 他小女兒的生命衰竭了。5. PHRASE If someone or something is at a low ebb or at their lowest ebb, they are not very successful or profitable. 處于低潮 ...a time when everyone is tired and at a low ebb. …一個每人都處于疲憊狀態(tài)和低潮的時刻 返回 ebb劍橋詞典 ebb verb [I] (WATER) When the sea or tide ebbs, it moves away from the coast and falls to a lower level . 落潮，退潮 ebb verb [I] (FEELING) If a physical or emotional feeling ebbs, it becomes less strong or disappears . 衰退；逐漸減少；衰竭 He could feel his strength ebbing (away). 他能感覺到自己逐漸體力不支。 返回 ebb