ebbing

英 [ˈebɪŋ]

美 [ˈebɪŋ]

v.  退; 落; 衰弱; 衰退; 减退
ebb的现在分词

复数：ebbings　现在分词：ebbing　

BNC.42911 / COCA.39444

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

英英释义

noun

• a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
  Synonym:ebbwane

双语例句

• From just the entrance, in the southern part of the bay, up to a second slack water area, about midway up the bay, tidal currents are ebbing.
  在海湾的南部，从紧靠入口处内侧直到第二平潮区，其间距离大约是到海湾的一半，潮流正在回落。
• It's hard to avoid rising and ebbing tides during our lives.
  人生难免潮起又潮落。
• Yet despite this apparent success, the risks of nuclear proliferation are not ebbing, but growing.
  不过，尽管成果斐然，但核扩散的威胁非但没有减弱，反而在逐渐增强。
• The ebbing of his hope drained his faith.
  希望的幻灭使他失去了信心。
• In spite of repeated failures of the experiment, their enthusiasm was rising instead of ebbing away.
  尽管试验一次次的失败，他们的热情非但没有消失，反而更加高涨。
• At Motorola the question remains when the ebbing tide will start to turn.
  摩托罗拉的问题依然是，退去的潮水何时重新上涨。
• Waters ebbing at low tide;
  低潮时退去的汐流；
• Because the mind, like the ocean waves, is constantly arising and ebbing.
  因为我们这念心时时刻刻在起波浪。
• There are indications that his esoteric popularity may be ebbing.
  有迹象表明，他神秘的声望可能正在下降。
• With the dollar now showing signs of strength, and the fears of inflation ebbing, oil prices also should fall, they say.
  他们表示，鉴于美元出现走强迹象和对通胀的担忧减轻，油价也会走低。