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。
• It will bottom out at some point.
  在某时它会降到最低点。
• He estimated the bank's card business will "bottom out" in the third quarter of2011.
  他估计银行信用卡业务在2011中的第三季度将“降到最低点”。
• 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。
• 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。
• He expects the recession to bottom out
  他预期经济萧条将见底。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。