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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

退潮 [tuìcháo]
  1. 1. ebb tide; ebb

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

退潮 [tuìcháo]
  1. 1. 潮水退落,也说落潮。
    退潮后,一起到海边拾贝壳。

Examples

The words on the sand will disappear without a trace when tide ebbed.
退潮时,沙上的字会消失的无影无踪。
The boat bottomed out in the low tide.
退潮时,船搁浅了。
We dropped her astern on the end of a seven-inch manilla, and she laid comfortably on the ebb tide.
我们用七尺长的马尼拉麻绳拴住船尾后就离开了;丢下的船独自舒适地待在退潮之中。

Word Decomposition

退
[tuì]
+
[cháo]

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