ebbing

1. VERB （潮水或海水）退，落
   When the tide or the sea ebbs, 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。
2. 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.
   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。
3. VERB 衰退;减退;减弱
   If someone's life, support, or feeling ebbs, 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 away means the same as ebb.
      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。
4. 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.
   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。
5. 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.
   1. ...the ebb and flow of feeling and moods.
      感觉和情绪的起伏

1. 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。
2. New data from the Conference Board think-tank show that average labour productivity growth in mature economies slowed to 0.6 per cent in 2014 from 0.8 per cent in 2013, as a result of ebbing performances in the US, Japan and Europe.
   智库机构世界大型企业联合会（ConferenceBoard）的新数据显示，由于美国、日本和欧洲的表现日益走下坡路，成熟经济体的平均劳动生产率增速由2013年的0.8%降至2014年的0.6%。
3. It is also salutary to note how quickly the shale revolution has overturned many predictions of ebbing US power.
   另外有必要指出的是，页岩气革命是多么迅速地推翻了众多关于美国实力衰落的预言。
4. Falling commodity prices are leading to ebbing inflationary pressures in much of the emerging world, giving central banks latitude to keep monetary policy loose.
   不断下跌的大宗商品价格导致许多新兴国家通胀压力消退，使央行拥有保持宽松货币政策的回旋余地。
5. The ebbing waves take away a lot of dust and sand, and they leave some seashells at the same time.
   隐退的潮水带走了许多泥沙，同时也留下一些贝壳。
6. 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。
7. Waters ebbing at low tide;
   低潮时退去的汐流；
8. I bubble into ebbing bays. I babble on the pebble.
   我如泡沫般流向退潮的海湾。我在鹅卵石上呀呀学语。
9. In spite of repeated failures of the experiment, their enthusiasm was rising instead of ebbing away.
   尽管试验一次次的失败，他们的热情非但没有消失，反而更加高涨。
10. The tide is ebbing so we'll soon be able to walk further down the beach.
    正在退潮，我们一会儿就能走下海滩了。
11. 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。
12. Waves lap the shore incessantly, and thoughts swing with rhymes, surging up and ebbing away.
    海浪不停地拍打海岸，思维随着节奏飘荡，涌上来又退下去。
13. He could feel his strength ebbing.
    他渐感体力不支。
14. 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。
15. Yet despite this apparent success, the risks of nuclear proliferation are not ebbing, but growing.
    不过，尽管成果斐然，但核扩散的威胁非但没有减弱，反而在逐渐增强。
16. 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。
17. It's hard to avoid rising and ebbing tides during our lives.
    人生难免潮起又潮落。
18. 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。
19. With the dollar now showing signs of strength, and the fears of inflation ebbing, oil prices also should fall, they say.
    他们表示，鉴于美元出现走强迹象和对通胀的担忧减轻，油价也会走低。
20. 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。
21. He was still alive, but his life was ebbing away.
    他还活着，但是他的生命在渐渐离去。
22. And, with his power ebbing, he faces a mountain of problems at home and abroad.
    同时，随着他的权力的衰减，他面临着一大堆国内和国际的问题。
23. 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。
24. Today, while it appears that there is a lot of money in the world, as a result of indulgent use of the government printing presses in the US and Europe, liquidity is slowly ebbing.
    眼下，尽管由于美国和欧洲的政府无节制地开动了印钞机，世界上看起来资金很充足，但流动性正在慢慢减少。
25. The ebbing of his hope drained his faith.
    希望的幻灭使他失去了信心。
26. 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。
27. Growth in the global economy is falling rapidly, the banks have ceased to grant credit and confidence is ebbing.
    全球经济增长正急速下滑，银行停止放贷，信心正在减弱。

noun

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

   Synonym:    ebbwane