ebbs是什么意思？

ebbs

• n. 退潮( ebb的名词复数 )，落潮，衰退；
• v. （指潮水）退( ebb的第三人称单数 )，落，减少，衰落；

例句

• Progenitive force ebbs , stillborn foetus, strange embryo increases. 繁殖力衰退,死胎 、 怪胎增加.
• The tide ebbs and flows twice in 24 hours. 潮水每24小时涨落两次.
• ...as a man's physical strength ebbs... 随着人体力的衰退
• 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。

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