low-water mark

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mark, such as a line of seaweed, showing the lowest level reached by a body of water.
    — Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.
  2. The nadir or lowest point of something. broadly

词形变化

low-water marks plural Antonym: high-water mark canonical
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