slumps

英 [slʌmps]

美 [slʌmps]

v.  (价格、价值、数量等)骤降，猛跌，锐减; 重重地坐下(或倒下)
n.  (销售量、价格、价值等的)骤降，猛跌，锐减; 萧条期; 衰退
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柯林斯词典

• VERB 急剧下降;暴跌
  If something such as the value of somethingslumps, it falls suddenly and by a large amount.
  1. Net profits slumped by 41%...
     净利润暴跌了 41%。
  2. Government popularity in Scotland has slumped to its lowest level since the 1970s.
     苏格兰政府的支持率骤跌至 20 世纪 70 年代以来的最低水平。Slumpis also a noun.
  3. ...a slump in property prices.
     房地产价格的暴跌
• N-COUNT 不景气;萧条;衰退
  Aslumpis a time when many people in a country are unemployed and poor.
  1. ...the slump of the early 1980s.
     20 世纪 80 年代初的大萧条
• VERB (因疲劳、生病等而重重)倒下，跌倒
  If youslumpsomewhere, you fall or sit down there heavily, for example because you are very tired or you feel ill.
  1. She slumped into a chair...
     她轰然倒在了椅子上。
  2. He saw the driver slumped over the wheel.
     他看见司机一头栽在了方向盘上。

双语例句

• He slumps because he's shot. don't mean he's dead.
  他落马因为中弹，落马不表示他死了。
• The property market and exports were leading drivers of the booming Chinese economy over the past decade and the slumps in both have taken a heavy toll.
  房地产市场和出口是过去10年中国经济繁荣的主要推动力量。这两个市场的暴跌已带来了严重影响。
• On this view booms and slumps are fluctuations around a given trend and any monetary or fiscal stimulus in the downturn must be reversed in the upturn, for example by a budget surplus or a monetary slowdown.
  从这种观点看，繁荣和衰退就是围绕着一种给定趋势的波动，同时，低迷时期的任何货币或财政刺激，都必须在上升时期予以逆转比如说通过预算盈余或货币供应减速等手段。
• When the economy slumps, however, these lifestyles have lost some of their luster.
  当经济衰落时，然而，这些生活方式丢失了他们的色泽。
• The past six months have seen several slumps, each with a different trajectory.
  过去六个月中有过数次衰退，每次的轨迹都不同。
• When the economy slumps, companies typically find themselves with large stocks of unsold goods.
  当经济衰退来临，公司通常发现他们的产成品库存量很大。
• Not all deflations bring about slumps.
  并非所有通货紧缩都会导致经济衰退。
• The figures were far below forecasts, even in the light of sharp slumps in exports in November from both Taiwan and South Korea.
  即使考虑到台湾和韩国11月出口的急剧下降，这些数据也远低于预期。
• As the greenback slumps, these countries have ever-stronger domestic reasons to allow their currencies to rise.
  随着资金供给支持减少，这些国家已经有足够多的理由使得自己的本国货币升值。
• When the market slumps, there's no chance for a new product to sell in large numbers.
  当市场暴跌时，新产品根本没有机会大量销售。