slump
美 [slʌmp] 
英 [slʌmp]
- n.衰退；锐减；萧条期
- v.猛跌；重重地坐下（或倒下）
- 网络暴跌；塌落；坍落
词形变化
复数：slumps 现在分词：slumping 过去式：slumped 反义词
同义词
英汉双解
1. | [i] （价格、价值、数量等）骤降，猛跌，锐减to fall in price, value, number, etc., suddenly and by a large amount |
| Sales have slumped this year. 今年销售量锐减。 |
| Profits slumped by over 50%. 利润突降 50% 以上。 |
| The paper's circulation has slumped to 90 000. 此报纸的发行量骤减至 9 万份。 |
2. | [i] + adv./prep. 重重地坐下（或倒下）to sit or fall down heavily |
| The old man slumped down in his chair. 老先生一屁股跌坐到椅子上。 |
| She slumped to her knees. 她扑通一声跪倒在地。 |
1. | ~ (in sth) （销售量、价格、价值等的）骤降，猛跌，锐减a sudden fall in sales, prices, the value of sth, etc. |
2. | 萧条期；衰退a period when a country's economy or a business is doing very badly |
| the slump of the 1930s 20 世纪 30 年代的大萧条 |
| The toy industry is in a slump. 玩具业现在不景气。 |
英汉解释
n. | 1. 【商】(物价等的)暴跌;(事业的)衰败,低落;(精神等的)消沉,萎靡 |
v. | |
英英解释
例句
Just when investors are persuaded the bottom of a bear market has been reached, share prices slump once more.
正当投资者认为熊市已到达底部之时，股价又再度大幅下挫。
The sharp post-Lehman slump in the won could have been a lot sharper had flows out of equities not re-directed into bonds, as they did.
雷曼（Lehman）破产后，如果不是因为从股市流出的资金转向了债券，韩元的跌势可能会更为凌厉。
I've never been stuck in such a slump before, my life seems pointless.
我从来没这么低谷过，生活似乎变得毫无意义。
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the housing slump will continue to be a drag on U. S. growth into next year.
做为名词，有累赘，拖累的意思。美国联邦储备委员会主席伯南克认为，房屋市场的不景气会继续成为美国经济成长的绊脚石。
And this picture is often treated as evidence that trade contraction was somehow driving the slump.
这张图经常被视作贸易萎缩导致经济跳水的证据。
Almost a year later, the Chinese stock market was the first to turn and then lead the world's markets out of their post-Lehman slump.
差不多一年后，中国股市又率先反弹，随后引领全球市场走出雷曼破产后的低迷期。
In a slump there is no natural tendency for the rate of interest to fall, because people's desire to hoard money is increasing.
经济衰退时，利率不具有自然的下行倾向，因为人们囤积资金的欲望在增强。
This is bad news for Asia's export-led economies at a time when their domestic consumption is still not enough to compensate for a US slump.
对于亚洲出口型经济体而言，这是个坏消息，因为目前它们的国内消费还不足以弥补美国经济衰退带来的影响。
Branded-goods groups must decide how much of the slump is cyclical and how much reflects a permanent change in consumer behavior.
名牌商品集团必须分成辨出，此轮市场萧条多大程度上是周期性现象，多大程度上反映了消费者行为的永久性改变。
Economists don't agree on much, but there seems to be a wide consensus that the United States is in an innovation slump.
经济学家们还没有达成一致意见，但似乎有一种广泛共识，那就是美国在创新经济方面的衰退。
So it looked as though they'd be all right together, he thought, as long as a war didn't start, or trade slump and bring back the dole.
于是阿瑟想看起来大家住在一起挺好，只要不发生战争、商业不衰退、不吃救济；
IT HAS become known as the "Great Recession" , the year in which the global economy suffered its deepest slump since the second world war.
在众所周知的”大萧条“年中，全球经济遭遇了自第二次世界大战以来最大的经济衰退。
Steven Gerrard has held his hands up over Liverpool's desperate slump in form, and vowed to improve to turn their season around.
史蒂芬已经承认本赛季利物浦状态下滑，他发誓他们一定要扭转他们的局面。
The worst of the media sector slump might be behind the company, he said, as he reported "some good signs of life" in advertising.
他表示，该公司可能已经度过了传媒业的最严重滑坡，广告业务出现了“一些好的复苏迹象”。
They are planning to get out of the economic slump, watch out for each other and let fast rising nations help out.
领导人计划走出经济低谷，希望相互帮助并且希望新兴的经济大国能够援助。
Fan said the slump in major stock markets was a correction of earlier overheating that would have a limited influence on other economies.
他表示主要股市的暴跌是对先前经济过热的调整，对于其他经济体的影响非常有限。
Bankers warned yesterday that this trend was a creeping form of protectionism that could plunge the world into a deeper economic slump.
银行家昨日警告称，这种趋势是保护主义的一种蔓延形式，可能使全球陷入更严重的经济衰退之中。
The United States will no doubt find its way out of the ongoing slump.
无庸置疑，美国将找到走出现行衰退的阴影。
So, naturally, the only way out of the slump that I could think of was, I decided to call Oprah.
所以很自然唯一可以摆脱消沉我可以想到的就是去找奥普拉。
China's economy is picking up. The slump in global manufacturing seems to be easing.
中国的经济正趋回暖，而全球制造业的大副下挫亦有所缓和。
Even in this year's unilateral market slump, corporate annuity return on investment is often better than the market.
即使在今年这样的单边暴跌市场中，企业年金的投资收益也往往好于大盘。
As you know and as I know, we have descended into a pretty deep slump, measured by unemployment and labor force participation rates.
如你我所知，以失业率和劳动就业率来衡量，我们陷入了一个相当深的不景气状态。
It's an intelligent question, the answer to which will largely determine whether the current slowdown turns into a worldwide slump.
这是一个聪明的问题，而答案在很大程度上决定了美国当前经济逐渐减慢是否会变成世界范围的经济衰退。
He warns these countries will not be able to push the world economy out of a renewed slump.
他警告说，这些亚洲国家并没有能力推动世界经济摆脱一场新的衰退。
Many analysts believe that stocks are again in such a turbulent period, and that this rally could lead to another slump.
许多分析师认为，股市又进入了这种动荡期，反弹可能导致另一次低迷。
Windows: The company is banking on a new operating system to break out of its slump.
Windows：公司正在指望一个新的操作系统来突破目前的销售走低。
Well, that argument has no force now, since the chances that this slump will be over anytime soon are virtually nil.
鉴于衰退在短期内结束的可能性实际上为零，这种论调现在也是没有意义的。
China, theoretically, should be one of the locomotives that will eventually help pull the world out of its slump.
理论上说，中国应该是一辆最终能帮助把世界经济拉出低迷之谷的火车头。
He describes the dazed incomprehension of those who came of age during the boom and who now do not know how to cope with a slump.
他描写了那些在经济繁荣时期成长起来的人们的幻觉与迷失，而现在一旦面对经济衰退却又束手无策。
While the slump did not reflect pessimism so much as an overdue dose of realism, it has had severe consequences nonetheless.
虽然它的衰退更多源于一个迟到的现实主义药方，而不仅是悲观情绪，但其结果仍然很严重。
I really resent the way the press is now saying that I'm depressed and in a slump, as if I'm finished.
我的确不满媒体现在的说三道四，说我情绪低落而且生活颓废，好像是我要完蛋了。
The private equity business, one of the iconic businesses of the boom, is struggling with a deep slump of its own.
那些私募基金（未必准确），是金融蓬勃发展的一个标记，现在在深失落中挣扎。
"A global slump would drive widespread position cutting, " he said. "Today's favourite trades would be tomorrow's dogs. "
他表示：“全球低迷将推动市场普遍削减头寸。今天最受追捧的交易，在明天可能变得最不受欢迎。”
The only way we could have avoided a prolonged slump would have been for government spending to take up the slack.
我们避免衰退持续的方法是，政府应收紧财政支出。
Bringing it out of its slump, the Droid earned Motorola the number one spot on TIME's Top 10 Gadgets of the Year.
安卓不仅将该公司带出了困境，还将其带上了时代周刊小设备年度前十位。
However, there was better sentiment in Spain and the UK, where the extent of the market slump means many hope to see a bottom soon.
不过，西班牙和英国的市场人气较好，两国市场暴跌的程度，意味着很多人指望市场迅速见底。
Analysts said the slowdown was a return toward normal, sustainable growth, rather than the beginning of a worrying slump.
经济分析家指出经济的缓增长标志着经济发展回归到正常的，可持续的发展速度，并非预示着经济衰退的开始，无需担忧。
To be sure, the Obama administration is taking action to help the economy, but it's trying to mitigate the slump, not end it.
可以肯定的是，奥巴马政府正在采取行动帮助经济复苏，但他的策略只是试图减轻衰退，而非结束。
When sales slump due to a slow economy, a business owner's first inclination is often to cut the marketing budget.
在经济萧条的时候，各个行业的公司主管通常最倾向于削减市场宣传方面的预算。
No signs so far, therefore, of the sort of dramatic price drops that might lead to a slump in investment and put pressure on the banks.
因此，迄今尚未有迹象表明，会出现那种可能导致投资锐减、银行压力增大的房价暴跌。
