| 词汇 | plummeting |
| 释义 | plummeting present participle ofplummet plummet verb[ I ] uk /ˈplʌm.ɪt/ us /ˈplʌm.ɪt/ to fall very quickly and suddenly: 暴跌，急剧下降 House prices have plummeted in recent months.房价近几个月来暴跌。 Several large rocks were sent plummeting down the mountain.好几块巨石被从山上推下。 She plummeted to the ground.她一下摔到了地上。 to become smaller or less decreaseThe tests show that the tumour has decreased in size since we started treatment. lessenA healthy diet lessens your risk for cardiovascular disease. lowerThey've just lowered the age at which you can join. reduceThey've just reduced the price. bring downThey are bringing down their prices. dropStock prices dropped today after the company's announcement. to go down onto the ground suddenly fallShe slipped and fell. dropSeveral apples dropped from the tree. collapseSeveral buildings collapsed in the earthquake. crumpleHe fainted and crumpled into a heap on the floor. tumbleA huge rock tumbled down the mountain. plungeFour of the mountaineers plunged to their deaths when their ropes broke. Moving downwards base jumping cascade descend descent downwardly drop/fall/sink like a stoneidiom fall fall down go down parachute plumb post-dive pronate pronation put put something/someone down rain (something) down set spiral touch You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming and making smaller or less Examples of plummetingplummeting In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In the last decade the performance of robots has increased enormously while at the same time their prices have been plummeting. In the last decade the performance of robots has increased radically while at the same time prices have been plummeting. Looking for new ways to salvage plummeting business, these clubs adopted the viejoteca idea, with unprecedented success. Some interesting statements are related to industrial robots and report about "plummeting robot prices" as well as about increasing labor costs. While it may well have been markedly flexible over the depression years as a whole, in the final weeks before that eruption-with rice prices plummeting-it was strict and unyielding. Industrial production fell off by 31 per cent from its 1929 level, with activity in such key industries as metallurgy, textiles, and agriculture plummeting much more dramatically. I suggest that they are plummeting and obeying the law of gravity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As we know, those asylum numbers have been plummeting for many years. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Is inflation under control if it is plummeting and falls below zero into negative rates? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Moreover, at a time of plummeting house values, the financial uncertainty caused by a lease nearing expiry provides an additional and unnecessary cause for concern. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What are the costs of trying to service bank loans when the value of the stock is plummeting? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So the only result would be to get deeper into the red, to send the pound plummeting and prices and unemployment rocketing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The result of those local brain drains would almost certainly be plummeting house prices in the high spending areas. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is, on the other hand, plummeting downwards—and, in my view, the wrong way at that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Government policy is already destroying many post offices: the value of their business is plummeting because of the doubt and the danger that they face. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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