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				VERB (潮水或海水)退,落 When the tide or the sea ebbs, its level gradually falls. 例句 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。
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				N-COUNT 退潮(期);落潮(期) 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. 例句 ...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。
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				VERB 衰退;减退;减弱 If someone's life, support, or feeling ebbs, it becomes weaker and gradually disappears. 例句 ...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?
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				PHRASE 处于低潮;处于衰退状态 If someone or something is at a low ebb or at their lowest ebb, they are not being very successful or profitable. 例句 ...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。
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				PHRASE 起伏;消长;盛衰 You can use ebb and flow to describe the way that something repeatedly increases and decreases or rises and falls. 例句 ...the ebb and flow of feeling and moods.
						感觉和情绪的起伏