The hop ranch that he had last seen in the full tide of prosperity was almost a ruin .

他上一回去的时候，这忽布园正茂盛非凡，如今可差不多全部毁坏了。

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In one of Charles Dickens’s most sentimental scenes, the old coachman Barkis in “David Copperfield” delays his dying while the sea is full and coming onshore, but eventually “goes out with the tide”.

在查理•狄更斯的小说里，最感伤的镜头之一是，在《大卫•科普菲尔德》中的老赶马车人巴基斯，在大海涨潮的时候，海水很满向海岸边漫过去，巴基斯就推迟了他的死亡，但是最后“在退潮的时候也跟着去了”。

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By the end of the year the tide was turning as the oil price slumped, but critics claimed that retailers were slow to pass on the full benefits.

到了年底，趋势发生改变，油价出现了下跌。但评论指出，零售商们对此反应缓慢，没有让消费者完完全全地尝到这一甜头。

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"With all my heart, I urge you to pull up an anchor and make full sail before we lose the tide and are left stranded on the beach, exposed to the coming storms."

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Others were simply overwhelmed by the amount of water pushed ashore by the giant storm, which hit at high tide during a full moon.

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In a televised speech, he said the tide of war was receding, and that Afghan forces would take full control of the country's security by 2014.

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By 1987, it had felt the full impact of the Thatcherite industrial revolution as the unions fought in vain to halt the tide of privatisation.

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