| 单词 | slump |
| 释义 | slump I. intransitive verb 1. a. < ice cracked and he slumped through > b. < he slumped to the floor with hardly a murmur — Phoenix Flame > < slipped on the parquet and slumped headlong — Richard Llewellyn > 2. < slumped onto the leather davenport — J.A.Michener > < she walks slowly … slumping at the waist — Constance Walsh > 3. < begins to make a place for himself and then … suddenly slumps — Edmund Fuller > < sales slump badly in certain territories — E.H.Shanks > 4. a. < rock or earth slumps in a landslide or above a rock that is undergoing solution > b. < concrete or mortar will slump when the form is removed > transitive verb Synonyms: see fall II. dialect Britain III. chiefly Scotland IV. chiefly Scotland < slumping the … candidates together — Scots Magazine > V. 1. a. < a slump in theater attendance > < fear a slump in the party vote > < a period of moral slump — S.H.Adams > < the normal seasonal slump in tuna deliveries — Wall Street Journal > b. < a worldwide slump > < a slump in the wheat market > < the great waste of booms and slumps of the business cycle — Will Irwin > < lost all his money in the slump — Dorothy Sayers > c. < one spring I was in a batting slump — Ted Williams > < came out of its scoring slump and won the consolation game — Ice Hockey Guide > 2. 3. 4. chiefly New England < apple slump > < blueberry slump > — compare grunt 3 |
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