slumping
不景气,萧条的,倾斜的,萧条
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Definitions
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- : to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
- : to assume a slouching, bowed, or bent position or posture: Stand up straight and don't slump!
- : to decrease or fall suddenly and markedly, as prices or the market.
- : to decline or deteriorate, as health, business, quality, or efficiency.
- : to sink into a bog, muddy place, etc., or through ice or snow.
- : to sink heavily, as the spirits.
- 1
- : an act or instance of slumping.
- : a decrease, decline, or deterioration.
- : a period of decline or deterioration.
- : any mild recession in the economy as a whole or in a particular industry.
- : a period during which a person performs slowly, inefficiently, or ineffectively, especially a period during which an athlete or team fails to play or score as well as usual.
- : a slouching, bowed, or bent position or posture, especially of the shoulders.
- : a landslide or rockslide.
- : the vertical subsidence of freshly mixed concrete that is a measure of consistency and stiffness.
- : New England Cooking. a dessert made with cooked fruit, especially apples or berries, topped with a thick layer of biscuit dough or crumbs.
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Examples
And, yes, even Tesla can endure a strong slump, giving up tens of billions of dollars in market capitalization at the same time.
The decline came amid a broader slump in high-flying tech stocks that pushed the Nasdaq 100 to its worst one-day loss since March.
The pandemic has pushed the global economy into what may be its deepest slump since the Great Depression.
The looming economic slump due to the Covid-19 pandemic is expected to worsen its woes.
These weekly and daily data sets—known as high-frequency data—show that after recovering somewhat from the big slump earlier this year, economic activity has been flagging since the number of Covid-19 cases spiked in June.
One of their first observations about daytime sleep was that the dreaded mid-afternoon slump is part of human nature.
As a result, reporting and public expectations suffered a dreadful, anti-climatic slump.
But if Pixar's going to slump, it's comforting that Disney is back to its old tricks.
I have watched her posture slump with sadness when key legislative fights were lost in the New York and New Jersey legislatures.
Keynes famously said that ‘the boom, not the slump, is the time for austerity.’
We may hit on a good place like this, one day, and the next time we try it we'll slump into a hole that'll raise the mischief.
Two days later the main body arrived, and Llanyglo experienced its first social slump.
He might just as well, he might much better, slump down in a sodden heap amid the rest of the jetsam.
Dimly Bart saw old Rugel slump forward, moaning softly; saw the old Lhari pillow his bald head on his veined arms.
We are always tempted to think a person who "slumps" physically may slump in other ways.