英语释义

1. to fall or sink suddenly

2. to drop or slide down suddenly collapse

3. to assume a drooping posture or carriage slouch

4. to go into a slump
sales slumped

5. a marked or sustained decline especially in economic activity or prices

6. a period of poor or losing play by a team or individual

7. a downward slide of a mass of rock or land

8. to sit or fall down suddenly and heavily

9. to move down or forward suddenly

10. to decrease suddenly and by a large amount

11. a sudden decrease in prices, value, amount, etc.

12. a period of time when an economy is doing poorly

13. a period of time when a team or player is doing poorly

14. to drop or slide down suddenly collapse
The tired woman slumped into a chair.

15. slouch entry 2
Don't slump when you walk.

16. to drop sharply
Sales slumped.

17. a big or continued drop especially in prices, business, or performance

片语

subaqueous slumping水下滑塌

slumping biscuit塌饼

slump test稠度试验，[建] 坍落试验；流动度试验；重陷试验

slumping salvage陷落体救助

slumping block崩滑块体

slumping deposits滑塌沉积

economic slump经济衰退

submarine slumping海底塌陷

channelbank slumping河岸滑塌作用

slumping sales销售额暴跌

slumping market萧条的市场

英汉例句

• The slumping had opened deep underground cracks in which roughly 60 prairie rattlers had wintered.

  坍塌的河岸打开了深入地下的裂缝，大概有60条大草原响尾蛇在那里过了冬。

• STOCKMARKETS are slumping and banking is troubled, but a Japanese firm hopes to buck both trends.

  股市飞速下跌和银行深陷泥潭，但是有这样一家日本的公司却反潮流而行。

• Berkshire Hathaway「s slumping share price soared after its board decided to buy back some of the firm」s own stock.

  在董事会决定回购其部分股票后，美国保险公司伯克希尔?哈撒韦公司不断下滑的股价飙升。

• With DVD sales slumping in the recession and outside financing hard to obtain, the leading studios are cutting back their output of films.

  随着在经济衰退期DVD销售额暴跌，以及外部融资困难，几大电影公司的消减他们电影产量。

• Because slumping fuel and salt from seawater that had been used as a coolant is probably blocking circulation pathways, the water flow in No. 1 「is severely restricted and likely blocked.

  由于散落的核燃料和用作冷却剂的海水中析出的盐极有可能堵塞循环系统的管道，1号机组中的水流目前“受到极大阻碍，很有可能已经被堵塞」；

• Almost all the unexpected growth came from a small rise in business inventories. This is almost certainly because firms did not reduce production quickly enough to keep pace with slumping orders.

  所有未预期的增长几乎都是商业存货值的增加，这无疑是因为企业没有快速减产以跟上订单的骤减。

• After slumping in 2008 profits have recently rebounded and, in the case of America, are close to a post-war high as a proportion of GDP.

  2008年下滑后，利润如今已经反弹。以美国为例，就占国内生产总值的比重而言，利润已经接近战后的高位。

• Government finances commonly deteriorate after housing booms end, as fiscal policy is employed aggressively to prevent the economy from slumping further.

  房地产繁荣结束后，政府财政状况通常会恶化。这是因为政府要大力采用财政政策，避免经济进一步衰退。

• The pain of slumping foreign sales was amplified as firms anxious about future demand and keen to protect their cash reserves ran down stocks and cut spending on plant and machinery.

  工厂担心将来市场需求下降，迫切持有现金，卖出股票，削减工厂和设备投资，这一切都加深了外贸萎缩带来的痛苦。

• 「Sentiment will be negative as investors begin to worry about slumping property sales and the pace of new share sales,」 analyst Liu Haobo said.

  该公司分析师刘浩波表示，由于投资者开始担忧房地产交易量大幅下跌和新股发行的节奏，市场情绪料将保持悲观。

• The purchases have helped the Banks compensate for slumping loan demand in Japan.

  这类购买有助于银行补偿日本下降的贷款需求。

• Global stocks markets are plummeting, house prices are slumping and jobless figures are rising but Americans are not about to let a financial crisis dent their Halloween fun.

  眼下全球股市暴跌、房价下滑，失业率不断上升，但金融危机并没有影响到美国民众过万圣节的好心情。

• Property values are slumping in almost all of the 19 countries in our latest global survey (see table).

  最近的全球调查显示19个国家的资产价格几乎普遍缩水(见上表)。

• He was also hurt by the slumping popularity of Rob Ford, the city「s ideologically conservative mayor, who has cut the municipal government」s spending sharply.

  由于大幅度削减市政开销，具有保守党意识的市长罗伯·福特名望下降，这也对胡达克造成了损害。

• Not only does slumping over your keyboard give you chronic backache and make you look slovenly, it also increases your risk of heart disease, says The Journal of Neuroscience.

  不仅在你的键盘给你的滑坡慢性背痛使你看起来邋遢它也增加你患心脏病的风险称神经科学杂志》上。

• The Federal Reserve announced a measure Wednesday to buy long-term Treasury bonds and sell short-term bonds as a means of stimulating the slumping U.S. economy.

  美国联邦储备委员会星期三宣布了将购买长期美国国债并抛售短期美国国债的举措，以刺激美国疲弱的经济。

• Around the world factory output is plunging at its fastest pace in decades as the consequences of slumping demand have rattled along the supply chain.

  持续下跌的需求在供应链上磨得嘶嘶作响，导致全球的工业产量正以数十年来最快的速度下跌。

• Although they are likely to fall as a result of the slumping world economy, they may be less fickle than more publicised private-capital flows, such as equity and lending by foreign Banks.

  尽管它们可能会随全球经济的急剧下滑而下降，但是它们不象一些诸如外国银行的股权和贷款那样的公私资本流那样变化莫测。

• If fiscal stimulus is no substitute for financial clean-ups, it is an important support at a time of slumping demand.

  如果财政刺激难以取代金融整顿的话，前者在这个需求低迷的时期也是一项重要支持。

• Many of the designated areas are in the path of rapid development—or were before the slumping housing market and the credit crunch stalled new building.

  在房屋市场暴跌和信贷危机之前，许多被指定的区域都在快速发展中，或是停止新的建筑。

• One reason, he said, was that Wal-Mart is taking advantage of the slumping advertising market to increase its advertising.

  他说，其中一个原因是沃尔玛抓住了广告市场下滑的机会加大了广告力度。

• More recently, on a blazing summer day, he took me back to one of the den sites, in a slumping bank above the South Saskatchewan River.

  最近，在夏天一个炽热的日子，他带我回到南萨斯喀彻温河坍塌河岸上这样一个巢穴地点。

• China's Ministry of Commerce is urging local authorities to take measures to protect farmers from the slumping wholesale vegetable prices.

  中国商业部呼吁地方当局采取措施防止农民遭受大规模的蔬菜价格下降的影响。

相似词

depression沮丧；忧愁；抑郁癥；洼地；不景气；低气压区

recession衰退；不景气；后退；凹处

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