Middle English, from Old English nepflod "neap flood," the tide occurring at the end of the first and third quarters of the lunar month, in which high waters are at their lowest, of unknown origin, with no known cognates (Danish niptid probably is from English). Original sense perhaps is "without power." As a noun from 1580s.
双语例句
1. Neap tides are especially weak tides.
小潮涨潮尤其弱潮汐.
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2. Neap tides occur during quarter moons.
小潮涨潮期间发生季度卫星.
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3. What are neap tides?
小潮是什么?
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4. Is defeated possibly is in disguised form victory, neap tide is the high tide start.
失败可能是变相的胜利, 最低潮就是高潮的开始.
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5. Temporally, the suspended sediment concentration in the jiaojiang river estuary neap - spring tidal cycle and flood - ebb fluctuations.
