tides

• He sold his furniture to tide over his illness .
  他卖掉家具以渡过病期的难关。
• A similar mechanism generates our ocean tides .
  类似的作用过程就造成海洋潮汐。
• There were plenty of barges dropping down with the tide .
  有不少驳船顺流而下。
• Is the tide coming in or going out ?
  现在是涨潮还是落潮？
• The tide of the battle would turn .
  作战的风向就会逆转。
• The boat was going to put off and the tide would be spent .
  船要开了，潮要退了。
• The money is enough to tide him over the difficulties .
  这笔钱足够他度过难关了。
• We could n't swim -- the tide was too far out .
  我们不能游泳了潮水退得太远了。
• And my soul was a stagnant tide .
  我的灵魂是一潭死水。
• She was carried along by the tide .
  她为形势所左右。