slumping

英 [ˈslʌmpɪŋ]

美 [ˈslʌmpɪŋ]

v.  (价格、价值、数量等)骤降，猛跌，锐减; 重重地坐下(或倒下)
slump的现在分词

COCA.27738

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

• Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton are also planning cutbacks amid darkening economic outlooks around Asia, slumping prices for industrial commodities and rising production costs.
  随着亚洲各地经济前景越来越黯淡、工业用大宗商品价格大幅下跌、生产成本不断上升，力拓（RioTinto）和必和必拓（BHPBilliton）也在做瘦身规划。
• But car sales are slumping, and it is clear that Tata Motors overpaid for its British trophies.
  但在汽车销售形势每况愈下的环境下，塔塔汽车收购这两个英国汽车品牌明显是吃亏了。
• The Fed and Treasury were expecting the economy to weaken but not as rapidly as it has, with collapsing consumer confidence, falling home starts, slumping retail sales and falling industrial production.
  美联储和财政部曾预计经济将出现疲软，但未料想到如此迅速，同时出现了消费者信心日益瓦解、新房开工数不断下降、零售销售大幅滑坡和工业产出持续下降的局面。
• Investors could be forgiven for thinking the market was dying based on their slumping sales.
  从个人电脑市场的疲弱销售看，投资者有理由认为这一市场正在消亡。
• Slumping has the effect of closing the chest and reduces your ability to breathe freely.
  弯腰驼背会让你的胸腔难以打开，减少了你自由呼吸的能力。
• Mrs Merkel's coalition is slumping in part because voters dislike giant German-backed rescues of shaky euro members.
  因为选民们不喜欢目前德国力挺的救助欧元区风雨飘摇中的国家的计划，默克尔夫人的同盟已经开始处处掣肘。
• Prices of key commodities like oil are falling amid market turmoil and signs of slumping global growth Within China, pork prices, a main driver of inflation in recent months, have started to stabilise as more pigs come to market.
  由于市场动荡以及全球经济增速大幅下滑的种种迹象，石油等主要大宗商品价格正不断走低。在中国国内，随着更多的猪肉投放市场，作为近几个月通胀主要推手的猪肉价格已开始趋于稳定。
• Slumping in my chair, chin in hands, I wondered what all this was worth.
  我瘫坐在椅子上，用手托着下巴，心中问道：做这一切值吗？
• Demand for cars had begun slumping in Japan and the US even before the latest wave of global financial jitters, but it has been more than offset by surging sales in emerging markets.
  甚至在全球金融市场最新一波不安情绪出现之前，日本和美国的汽车需求就已开始大幅下滑，但新兴市场汽车销量的不断飙升远远抵消了这种影响。
• Falling real income, slumping share and house prices and tighter credit all cast a cloud over consumer spending.
  实际收入的减少，股价和房价的下挫以及日趋紧张的信贷，皆为居民消费（consumerspending）蒙上了一层阴影（castacloudover）。