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ebb tide

退潮,退潮期,退潮时,退潮时节

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the reflux of the tide or the tide at ebb; ebb.

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Examples

  • But the tide was turning on this issue, an email from another constituent made clear.

  • Instead of decorating every face on the street, Google Glass hit a contrarian rip tide.

  • Ebb and flow, checks and balances, the center would hold, et cetera.

  • Objectively, they are not just riding with the tide, but helping to guide its very direction.

  • But before a new tide of tourists can flow from Miami to Havana, Cuba will need to build more runways.

  • His ear, his brain, his muscles take on a new joyous activity, and the tide of life rises higher.

  • They climbed another dune, and came upon the great gray sea at low tide.

  • It seemed; it truly seemed as if the tide of blue, grey, scarlet specks was submerging the enemy's strongholds.

  • The blood rushed in a hot tide into the girl's pale wet face, and yet she shivered as if an arrow had pierced her heart.

  • We were mere atoms in a vast wave of horn and bone and flesh that bore us onward as the tide floats driftwood.