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

• 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 way a person is difficult to bottom out.
  一个人的路，难以走出低谷。
• But against that, no one knows where falling demand will bottom out.
  但现在也没人知道不断萎缩的需求会在何处触底。
• She knocked the bottom out of our argument.
  她把我们的论点驳得体无完肤。
• 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。
• 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。
• Second, tax regimes have started to bottom out.
  第二，税率已开始接近谷底。
• 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。
• 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。