low tide

英 [ˌləʊ ˈtaɪd]

美 [ˌloʊ ˈtaɪd]

n.  (大海的)低潮时期，低潮

牛津词典

noun

• （大海的）低潮时期，低潮
  the time when the sea is at its lowest level; the sea at this time
  1. The island can only be reached at low tide .
     这座岛只能在退潮时上去。

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 低潮（时间）；干潮（时间）；枯潮（期）
  At the coast,low tideis the time when the sea is at its lowest level because the tide is out.
  1. The causeway to the island is only accessible at low tide.
     通往该岛的堤道只有在枯潮时才能通行。

英英释义

noun

• the lowest (farthest) ebb of the tide
  Synonym:low water

双语例句

• Low tide carries yet another feature of interest.
  低潮还带来另一种有趣的现象。
• The occurrence of incoming water ( between a low tide and the following high tide).
  （在一次低潮和下一次高潮之间）海水的上涨。
• Waters ebbing at low tide;
  低潮时退去的汐流；
• If I were you I would not find fault with the sea at low tide.
  假如我是你，我决不在低潮的时候去抱怨大海。
• A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot. the occurrence of incoming water ( between a low tide and the following high tide).
  一块潮湿的下沉低地。（在一次低潮和下一次高潮之间）海水的上涨。
• At high tide the sea covers the rocks, but at low tide it uncovers them.
  海水在高潮位时淹过了礁石，可是在低潮位时却淹不过。
• Thus high tides will occur at the same time on opposite sides of the earth, rather than a high tide on one side and a low tide on the other.
  这样，在地球相对的两侧将同时出现高潮，而不是一侧出现高潮，另一侧出现低潮。
• For example in Brittany we were able to monitor a movement of two millimetres between high and low tide.
  比如说以前在布列塔尼地区，我们考察到在涨潮和落潮之间地壳会有两毫米的移动。
• The water seems to retrograde back into the ocean low tide.
  这海水好像在低潮时会倒逆流回大海。
• I got there the wrong time at low tide.
  我到的时候不对，刚好是低潮的时候。