| 单词 | to be on the ebb |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be on the ebb b. A point or condition of decline or depression, esp. in phrases to be at an ebb, at a low, lowest ebb; also to be on the ebb. Also poetic of the eyes, at ebb: dry. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 438 Mine eyes (neuer since at ebbe) beheld..my Father wrack't. View more context for this quotation 1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 142 The low water ebbe of the evill day. 1654 T. Warren Vnbeleevers 134 To make the Apostle reason at a very low ebbe. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music vii. 154 Private and public Virtue were at the lowest Ebb. 1798 E. H. Bay Rep. Cases Superior Courts S.-Carolina 36 In 1780, money was at its lowest ebb. 1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1878) ix. 698 The fortunes of France reached their lowest ebb. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. cix. 580 Metaphysics themselves being now on the ebb in Germany. < as lemmas |
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