bottom out

英 [ˈbɒtəm aʊt]

美 [ˈbɑːtəm aʊt]

（价格等）达到最低点，停止恶化

经济

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB （价格等）达到最低点，停止恶化
  If a trend such as a fall in pricesbottoms out, it stops getting worse or decreasing, and remains at a particular level or amount.
  1. He expects the recession to bottom out...
     他预期经济萧条将见底。
  2. House prices have bottomed out.
     房产价格已经止跌企稳。

英英释义

verb

• hit the ground
  1. the car bottomed out where the driveway meets the road
• reach the low point
  1. Prices bottomed out and started to rise again after a while

双语例句

• The way a person is difficult to bottom out.
  一个人的路，难以走出低谷。
• Some glaring uncertainty still needed to be resolved, but I would expect the Asian financial crisis to bottom out in a number of years and we shall then witness a slow but sure road towards recovery.
  虽然我们要面对一些重大的不明朗因素，但我预期亚洲金融危机在数年内便会结束，届时亚洲的经济必定能够走出谷底，逐渐复原。
• This thing shook the bottom out of all my Sunday-school teachings.
  这件事把我所有从主日学校所受的教训从根本上动摇了。
• It is desirable to have the die "bottom out" or strike the paper at the point where the stretch of the material comes close to reaching it's maximum limit without cracking or tearing.
  这是可取的“末位淘汰”的死，或击点舒展的材料很接近，以达到它的最高限额不开裂或撕裂的纸张。
• However, while top officials in both the US administration and central bank think the economy will probably bottom out in the second half of this year, they remain wary of calling the turn in the economic cycle.
  不过，虽然美国政府和央行的高级官员都认为今年下半年经济有望见底，但他们都谨慎地不愿预测经济周期转向。
• Pads which bottom out, should not have spring pockets.
  最底的垫板，不需要弹簧保护装置。
• A mouse's levels of the DNA-repairing protein XPA are different from ours& they peak in the morning and bottom out in the evening.
  人类的DNA修复蛋白XPA含量变化与老鼠的不同，一般在早晨达到峰顶，而晚上则降低到谷底。
• Second, tax regimes have started to bottom out.
  第二，税率已开始接近谷底。
• On the first question it looks like the global economy will bottom out in the second half of 2009.
  关于第一个问题，看起来全球经济将在2009年下半年见底回升。
• He showed no interest in it, and his refusal has knocked the bottom out of our plan.
  他对我们的计划一点都不感兴趣，而且他的拒绝使我们的计划付诸东流。