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

• 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。
• The ebbing of his hope drained his faith.
  希望的幻灭使他失去了信心。
• They watched long and wonderingly for him to COME up, but not even a bubble rose on the quietly ebbing tide.
  他们好奇地注视了好久，等候他浮上来，但是在那缓缓退落的海潮面上连个水泡儿也没浮起。
• The old man felt life was ebbing away from him.
  老人感到自己的气力正在日渐衰退。
• 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。
• Carrie gazed at him, and as she did so her ebbing courage halted.
  嘉莉注视着他。这一注视使她正在消失的勇气又开始恢复一点了。
• 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。
• 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。
• In general, Asia is suffering because exports are weakening and consumer demand ebbing, which in turn puts pressure on corporate profits and increases investors'jitters.
  总体来看，亚洲正受到出口走软和消费者需求下滑的打击，这些不利因素使企业利润欲振乏力，并增加了投资者的不安情绪。
• But using his analytical tools, it is surely possible to sketch out a rather dark outlook for the sea, thanks not just to the ebbing of European power but to avoidable crises of governance and demography.
  但是利用他的分析工具，我们肯定可以为地中海勾勒出一个黯淡的未来，这不仅是因为因为欧洲的衰落也是由于本可避免的治理危机和人口危机。