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

• She knocked the bottom out of our argument.
  她把我们的论点驳得体无完肤。
• Introduction of new welding technology to rid itself of the past old WX3-12 series bottom out phenomenon.
  采用新的焊接技术彻底摆脱了以往老的WX3-12系列的底盖脱离现象。
• 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。
• 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。
• The rise in mortgage rates really knocked the bottom out of the housing market.
  抵押率的上升确实削弱了房屋市场的基础。
• 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。
• 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。
• However, for the first time in 16 months the rate of decline eased from the prior month, offering some hope that the property market could be beginning to bottom out.
  不过，这是16个月以来当月跌幅首次低于前月跌幅，该数据为房地产市场可能已开始触底提供了一线希望。
• Your objection knocked the bottom out of my original plan.
  你的反对意见破坏了我原来的计划。
• This sudden cold spell has knocked the bottom out of the market for seasonal items like ice cream and suntan oil.
  突来的寒流使得一些季节性商品如冰淇淋和防晒箱等的销售锐减。