slumping

基本解釋

Who will rescue America from a similar trap now that the whole world is slumping at the same time?
而儅整個世界都在同一時間衰退時，現(xiàn)在誰又能將美國從相似的先進(jìn)中拯救出來？
Property values are slumping in almost all of the 19 countries in our latest global survey (see table).
最近的全球調(diào)查顯示19個國家的資産價格幾乎普遍縮水（見上表）。
Analysts say that is not enough to shore up prices of aluminium, widely used in the slumping construction and automobile industries.
分析師表示，這些都不足以支撐鋁價，鋁的需求産業(yè)如建築和汽車業(yè)都在走下坡路。

Gold,whose prices have surged in the past year, is seen as a hedge against a slumping dollar.

Markets saw a boost Wednesday, opening in the green after two days of slumping indices.
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In 2004 Thomson spun off the slumping line to China's TCL Group and slunk away.
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This, combined with his slumping popularity, has led some to describe him as a lame duck.
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If something such as the value of something slumps, it falls suddenly and by a large amount.
Slump is also a noun.
A slump is a time when many people in a country are unemployed and poor.
If you slump somewhere, you fall or sit down there heavily, for example, because you are very tired or you feel ill.