ebbing是什么意思？

ebbing

• v. （指潮水）退( ebb的现在分词 )，落，减少，衰落；

例句

• Her strength was ebbing fast, so her children were called to her bedside. 她的气力在迅速消退，因此孩子们给叫到她床边。
• The pain was ebbing. 疼痛逐渐减轻了。
• Their popular support is ebbing away. 他们的人气正在衰退。
• China's commitment to greenness appears to be ebbing. 中国的绿色承诺似乎正在退色.
• 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.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)