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

• At low tide, what you will do?
  低潮时，你们都会做什么？
• 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。
• 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。
• We walked across to Hilbre island at low tide.
  我们在低潮时涉水去希尔伯岛。
• I got there the wrong time at low tide.
  我到的时候不对，刚好是低潮的时候。
• Where we have to draw a boat tour of the beach, at low tide in the afternoon, I caught the rock is still a small starfish.
  在那里我们还去划了船，游了泳，在下午退潮之后，我还在岩石上捉到了一只小海星。
• Unable to return to the ocean during low tide, the starfish were dying.
  海星由于在退潮后回不到海里，面临死亡的厄运。
• They dug for shellfish at low tide
  退潮时他们在海滩上挖贝类。
• 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。
• The beach is covered in shells at low tide.
  低潮的时候沙滩上到处都是贝壳。