For ships to hold on by, if they lost the tide. What do you mean? It is high tide now. That is why the water is almost up to the branches of the trees. But when the tide turns, it will all rush out in a torrent which would sweep ships out to sea again, if they had not steam, as we have, to help them up against the stream. So sailing ships, in old times, fastened themselves to those rings, and rode against the stream till the tide turned, and carried them up to Bristol. But what is the tide? And why does it go up and down?英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
That morning-tide. That morning time. Tide in this sense is now used only in a few poetic compounds like eventide, springtide, etc. See iv. 59 below. For its former use, cf. Spenser, F. 29: "and rest their weary limbs a tide;" Id.英文原著 · 《The Lady of the Lake》
Perhaps, too, one would desire it to be always high water. The tide falls from eight to twelve feet, and when the water makes out between the wharves some of the picturesqueness makes out also. A corroded section of stovepipe mailed in barnacles, or the skeleton of a hoopskirt protruding from the tide mud like the remains of some old-time wreck, is apt to break the enchantment.英文原著 · 《An Old Town By The Sea》
And then it comes to you, and it makes you catch your breath to think of it, that every two or three miles all over this land, wherever there are children at all, there is the Old Red Schoolhouse. At this very hour a living tide, upbearing the hopes and prayers of God alone knows how many loving hearts, the tide on which all of our longed-for ships are to come in, is setting to the school-house. Oh, what is martial glory, what is conquest of an empire, what is state-craft alongside of this? Happy is the people that is in such a case!英文原著 · 《Back Home》
About one in the afternoon we weighed and stood to the eastward, between the main and King William's Island, leaving the island on our larboard side, and sounding till we were past the island, and then we had no ground. Here we found the flood setting east-by- north, and the ebb west-by-south; there were shoals and small islands between us and the main, which caused the tide to set very inconstantly, and make many whirlings in the water; yet we did not find the tide to set strong any way, nor the water to rise much.英文原著 · 《Early Australian Voyages》
His feelings became intolerable; he set his back to the boat, and with herculean strength forced it down a little way to meet the tide. He got logs and put them down for rollers. He strove, he strained, he struggled, till his face and hands were purple. And at last he met the flowing tide, and in a moment jumped into the boat, and pushed off. Helen begged with sparkling eyes to be allowed to accompany him. "What, to a ship smitten with scurvy, or Heaven knows what? Certainly not. Besides, you would be wet through; it is blowing rather fresh, and I shall carry on.英文原著 · 《Foul Play》
Someone let the league know about his FCPA issues, and with you and Bensinger splashed all over the papers, he didn't want to drown in your rising tide.美剧 · 《Billions》
If the quarter ended today, we'd be underwater like Crimson fucking Tide.美剧 · 《Billions》
They're trying to get one more stock bump before it becomes public that-- Here's a little something to tide you over in the fallout from your testimony against Mendham.美剧 · 《Billions》
Speak your truth, Son." Now, as most of you know, I have no problem making a speech that goes against convention, that brooks the tide of the expected, so that I may speak the unvarnished.美剧 · 《Billions》