slump

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n. 暴跌, 垂头弯腰的姿态 vi. 猛然掉落, 陷入, 衰落(经济等)

发音

AU /slʌmp/

词形变化

slumps 复数 slumps slumped slumping slumps 三单 slumping 现在分词 slumped 过去式 slumped 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

衰退;暴跌;消沉

动词

使降低;使衰落;使倒下

动词

下降,衰落;倒下;大幅度下降,暴跌

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.

    低潮状态

    消沉

    萎靡

  2. 2.

    A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.

    A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.

    俚语
  3. 3.

    A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.

  4. 4.

    A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.

    地质
  5. 5.

    A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)

    地质
  6. 6.

    A boggy place.

    英国 方言
  7. 7.

    The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.

    苏格兰
  8. 8.

    The gross amount; the mass; the lump.

    苏格兰
  9. 9.

    A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.

    a blackberry slump

v.
  1. 1.

    To collapse heavily or helplessly.

    不及物

    Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.

  2. 2.

    To decline or fall off in activity or performance.

    下跌

    不及物

    Real estate prices slumped during the recession.

  3. 3.

    To slouch or droop.

    不及物
  4. 4.

    To lump; to throw together messily.

    及物
  5. 5.

    To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.

  6. 6.

    To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.

    俚语 及物

词汇关系

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词源

Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Norwegian slumpa (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“randomize; to sell off”), Swedish slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”).

来源:wiktionary