Triều xuống ( (cũng) ebb-tide)

ebb and flow

nước triều xuống và nước triều lên

Thời kỳ tàn tạ, thời kỳ suy sụp

to be at an ebb; to be at a low ebb

ở trong tình hình khó khăn

Ở trong tình trạng sút kém, đang trong thời kỳ suy sụp

Rút, xuống (triều)

Tàn tạ, suy sụp

dòng nước rút

triều đi xuống

triều rút

dòng triều xuống

V.

Recede, flow back, subside, go out, go down; fall back oraway, retreat, retrocede, retire: The tide ebbed, leaving theboat stranded.

Decline, flag, decay, wane, diminish,decrease, drop, slacken, fade (away), drain (away), dwindle,peter out, waste (away), deteriorate: His enthusiasm forexercise is beginning to ebb.

N.

Low tide, low water, ebb tide, low point: The rocksappear when the sea is at its ebb.

Decline, decay, decrease,diminution, wane, drop, slackening (off), dwindling, lessening,deterioration, degeneration: She was no longer willing tocontend with the ebb and flow of his temper.

N. & v.

N.

The movement of the tide out to sea (alsoattrib.  : ebb tide).

The process of draining away offlood-water etc.

V.intr. (often foll. by away) 1 (oftidewater) flow out to sea; recede; drain away.

Decline; runlow (his life was ebbing away).

At a low ebb in a poorcondition or state of decline. ebb and flow a continuingprocess of decline and upturn in circumstances. on the ebb indecline. [OE ebba, ebbian]