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单词 flood tide
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  • After nightfall a strong flood tide would be setting up along shore to the Spanish anchorage.
  • And the next morning the cutter was, with the assistance of the flood tide, making quick progress to the southward.
  • It was a boisterous day, half a gale of wind against the flood tide.
  • So the hours of flood tide passed, and then the ship began to swing idly as the slack came.
  • When the flood tide rippled about the wreck it was obvious the pump was getting the water down.

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flood tide
Floodtideand ebb tide, late dawns and early nights—these will occur whether the closing time is 36, 42, or 48 hours.
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Flood tides occur when the tide exceeds a peak of 7.9 metres.
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A pronounced tidal asymmetry with an ebb tide lasting twice as long as thefloodtideis characteristic of the area.
From theCambridge English Corpus
For, as any veteran methodist field preacher knew, just as thefloodtideof enthusiasm could sweep men into the fold, so the ebb would draw them out.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In fact, these places are so dangerous that there has been practically a stoppage on using them when there is afloodtide.
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That was the time of thefloodtide!
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Reception areas have not been designated and no preparations have been made to receive thefloodtideof humanity pouring from the cities.
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What can escape a nylon net 1,000 yards long, operated on afloodtideand drifting into the river mouth?
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The directive will not trigger afloodtideof new migrants, but it is a particularly valuable mechanism for young people.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
Thefloodtideof migrants along our southern borders is upsetting our cosy calculation that inequality can be sustained without cost.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
She, too, is trying to hold back thefloodtideof disaster with inadequate funds.
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It is alwaysfloodtidewith the national expenditure.
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It is a drop in the ocean compared with the fullfloodtideof our hard currency balance.
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The second ingredient in thisfloodtideof opinion is the increasing concern for the totality of our physical environment.
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The drift netters come along with their 1,000-yard nylon nets and set them across thefloodtideas near to the river mouth as they can.
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