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词汇 rock-bottom
释义 rock bottom
noun[ U ]
 informaluk /ˌrɒk ˈbɒt.əm/ us /ˌrɑːk ˈbɑː.t̬əm/

rock bottomnoun[U] (LOW)


the lowest possible level: 最低点;最低水平
Confidence in the government is at rock bottom.民众对政府的信任降到了谷底。
Prices have reached rock bottom.物价跌到了最低点。
They were selling the goods at rock-bottom prices.他们以最低价销售货物。
The president's approval ratings have hit rock bottom.总统的支持率已跌至最低点。
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capstone
cellar
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glory days
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heyday
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high tide
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peak
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reach a crescendo
slow burner
sub-level
summit
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Costing little or no money

rock bottomnoun[U] (UNHAPPY)


the most unhappy that someone has ever been in their life: (生活中的)最低点,最不愉快的时刻
Dan had just left me and I was at rock bottom.丹刚刚离我而去,我心情糟到了极点。
Alcoholics often have to reach/hit rock bottom before they can recognize that they have a problem.酗酒者往往把生活搞得一塌糊涂后才会意识到自己存在问题。
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Difficult situations and unpleasant experiences
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adversity
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the Augean Stablesidiom
the hard wayidiom

rock-bottom | American Dictionary


rock-bottom
adjective
 infmlus/ˈrɑk ˈbɑt·əm/
at the lowest possible level or in the worst situation:
rock-bottom prices
The team hit rock bottom, losing 12 games in a row.

rock bottom | Business English


rock bottom
noun[ U ]
 informalukus
the lowest possible level:
The market has hit rock bottom.
The shares have reached rock bottom.
rock bottom
adjective[ before noun ]
(alsorock-bottom)ukus
used to describe something that has reached its lowest level:
rock-bottom prices/interest rates
The Federal Reserve Board has begun lifting short-term interest rates from rock bottom levels.

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rock bottom
They formulate the position that they refute as the view that ' 'individuals are more fundamental than social structures, they are the rock-bottom of any explanation.
Of course, the truth, or truths, may not reside at rock-bottom levels in any empirically attainable or theoretically interpretative representation.
They identify a new class of banker-owners (armadores-banqueros), who quickly came to dominate the local shrimp fishery through the purchase of antiquated cooperative vessels at rock-bottom prices.
When wage-cutting reaches what may be called rock-bottom, other forms of economy just as relentless have been pursued and employed.
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What he has missed are the rock-bottom facts of life as they affect the ordinary people.
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That is, perhaps, the rock-bottom reason why we are unable to get this problem tackled.
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The policy should be to fix the price at rock-bottom below which it is impossible to produce sheep except at a loss.
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Indeed, with our football team at the bottom of the league, we are at rock-bottom.
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By 1924 we had reached what we thought was rock-bottom.
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It is what is described as a rock-bottom standard.
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This pernicious system offers only rock-bottom choice to the parents and imposes most severe strains and pressures upon them and their children.
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The indications are that probably rock-bottom has been touched, but unless the discriminatory tax is taken off the figure is likely to remain very low.
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At present men engaged on work of that kind are living on what the drapers call "rock-bottom" wages.
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They consisted of regimented repetitions of machine-made materials and were the rock-bottom of architectural practice.
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The focus on quantity at rock-bottom prices merely results in ecological and economic problems.
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