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词汇 downside
释义 downside
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈdaʊn.saɪd/ us /ˈdaʊn.saɪd/
C1
a disadvantage of a situation or thing:
downside ofThe downside of living here, of course, is that it is expensive.在这里生活的不利因素当然就是生活费用很高。
Unemployment, inflation, and greater inequality are often the downside of a market economy.失业、通货膨胀和不平等的加剧常常是市场经济带来的不利一面。
The new version has many great features, but there are downsides.
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upside(ADVANTAGE)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Advantage and disadvantage
ace
an ace up your sleeveidiom
attraction
be well in thereidiom
be/stay/keep one jump aheadidiom
have something on your sideidiom
have the inside trackidiom
have the odds/cards stacked against youidiom
head start
hold all the cardsidiom
leg
lock
milk
profit from something
racing start
saving grace
scent bloodidiom
secret weapon
stick
the best of both worldsidiom

downside | American Dictionary


downside
noun[ U ]
us/ˈdɑʊnˌsɑɪd/
the negative part of a situation:
It’s a great plan – the downside is that it’s going to cost a lot of money.

downside | Business English


downside
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈdaʊnsaɪd/us
a disadvantage or problem:
The only downside of working here is that it is so far from my home.
The town's rapid growth does have a downside.
We discussed all the potential downsides, but in the end she decided to go ahead.
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Examples of downside


downside
On the downside, bond graphs do not possess the versatility of mathematical equations.
On the downside, firms experiencing safety problems with one of their own brand products cannot externalize the costs involved to the entire food market.
Figure 4 shows three panels with the results of the sensitivity analyses of the previous section, but now for downside deviation as the risk measure.
One commonly cited downside of globalization is the globalization of risk.
In every market there are winners, losers, buyers, sellers, and inevitably, beggars who are the downside of all economic systems of production and distribution.
On the downside, this often resulted in preferential treatment for certain regions over others, depending upon the power holders' origins.
Using downside deviation as a risk measure boils down to taking quadratic shortfall.
The downside is that it provides a case study of the fragmentation of the social sciences.
The downside is that it generates problems of demandingness of a sort that also afflict these rival approaches.
Finally, an extra argument for using a downside risk measure is that it represents the notion of loss aversion.
There is a rise in professed efficacy reinforced by maturational characteristics but, alas, this has a downside.
Taking no risk at all might prove to give a larger downside risk than taking calculated risks in the investment policy.
The only downside is the poor reproduction quality of many of the photos, many of which are too contrasty.
This being said, there is the potential downside of a vicious circle.
The disadvantage, however, is that it does not take into account that pension funds experience a serious downside when returns are (too) low.
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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