ebb
/eb/
📖 中文释义
- n. 退潮, 衰退
- vi. 潮退, 衰退
🔗 释义中的汉语词
🧩 词形变化
💬 双语例句
After 1979, fears about limits to growth and nuclear power ebbed. Oil prices gradually fell, and the stock market began its long climb towards its peak in 2000.
1979年之后,对于增长极限和原子能的恐惧消退了。 石油价格逐渐回落,而股市也开始了向其2000年的高峰进发的上涨行情。
With American influence at low ebb, the world is in danger of sliding into a vicious cycle of escalating violence. We can escape it only if we Americans repudiate the war on terror as a false metaphor.
But the root cause goes even deeper. Mankind’s ability to harness the forces of nature, both for constructive and destructive purposes, continues to grow, while our ability to govern ourselves properly fluctuates, and is now at a low ebb.
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🔴 反义词
🔗 常用搭配
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
- n. a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- n. the outward flow of the tide
- v. flow back or recede