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

• 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。
• When the next speaker produced all those facts, he knocked the bottom out of my arguments.
  当下一位发言人提出所有论据时，他把我的论点彻底驳倒了。
• The global economy is starting to bottom out from the worst recession and financial crisis since the great depression.
  全球经济正开始从自大萧条（greatdepression）以来最严重的衰退和金融危机中见底回升。
• Until some of the leading economic indicators bottom out, it is too early to be optimistic on next year.
  直到一些先行经济指标见底，目前对明年乐观的预期还是言之过早。
• 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。
• 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。
• There is no sign that the recession have bottom out yet.
  没有迹象表明萧条已经到了极点。
• 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。
• But, no matter how hard they hammered, the well would eventually bottom out and the oil would dry up.
  但是，不论他们多么努力，最终，油井会打到底，油会干枯。
• She knocked the bottom out of our argument.
  她把我们的论点驳得体无完肤。