high tide

満潮

潮の満ち引きで、海面が最も高くなった状態。

やさしい英語で： The state when the sea reaches its highest level in its regular rise and fall.

• The beach disappears at high tide.
• High tide covered the rocks near the harbour.
• Do waves reach the wall at high tide?

類義語： high water

反対語： low tide

よく使う表現： at high tide, high tide water

満潮時刻

潮の満ち引きで、海面が最も高くなる時刻。

やさしい英語で： The time when the sea reaches its highest level during its regular rise and fall.

• High tide is at noon.
• We arrived an hour before high tide.
• What time is high tide tomorrow morning?

類義語： high water

反対語： low tide

よく使う表現： before high tide, high tide tomorrow

最盛期、絶頂

物事の勢い、成功、発展が頂点に達する時期や段階。

やさしい英語で： The point or period when something is strongest, most successful, or most developed.

• This was the high tide of his power.
• The movement reached its high tide in the seventies.
• Those years were the high tide of the city’s prosperity.

使い方： the high tide of something (The exhibition marked the high tide of her career.)

類義語： peak, climax, zenith

反対語： low point

よく使う表現： the high tide, high tide of