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

• 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。
• 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。
• It will bottom out at some point.
  在某时它会降到最低点。
• 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。
• But, no matter how hard they hammered, the well would eventually bottom out and the oil would dry up.
  但是，不论他们多么努力，最终，油井会打到底，油会干枯。
• But against that, no one knows where falling demand will bottom out.
  但现在也没人知道不断萎缩的需求会在何处触底。
• However, for the first time in 16 months the rate of decline eased from the prior month, offering some hope that the property market could be beginning to bottom out.
  不过，这是16个月以来当月跌幅首次低于前月跌幅，该数据为房地产市场可能已开始触底提供了一线希望。
• She knocked the bottom out of our argument.
  她把我们的论点驳得体无完肤。
• 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。
• Second, tax regimes have started to bottom out.
  第二，税率已开始接近谷底。