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

• 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。
• 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。
• She knocked the bottom out of our argument.
  她把我们的论点驳得体无完肤。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This thing shook the bottom out of all my Sunday-school teachings.
  这件事把我所有从主日学校所受的教训从根本上动摇了。
• 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。