| 单词 | bottom |
| 释义 | bottom bottom /; AmE / noun, adjective, verb
■ noun
FALSE BOTTOM, RACE TO THE BOTTOM, ROCK BOTTOM
1 [sing.] the lowest or worst level of sth: You have to be prepared to start at the bottom in the company and work your way up. Analysts believe this is the bottom of the cycle for mobile phone makers. The decline in demand for the products has now hit bottom. Some people think we have reached the bottom in the economy.
2 [C] the lowest part of sth: A message should appear at the bottom of the screen. Footnotes are given at the bottom of each page.
IDIOMS
the bottom drops/falls out of sth people stop buying or using the products of a particular industry: The bottom has dropped out of the travel market.
from the bottom up relying on the ideas and support of the people who have lower positions in an organization: She believes that authority comes from the bottom up, not the top down. OPP FROM THE TOP DOWN ⇨ BOTTOM-UP
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■ adjective [only before noun]
in the lowest, last or furthest place or position: Double-click on the icon in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen. The firm ranked in the bottom 25% of all those surveyed. The insurer has focused on the bottom end of the market (= on selling to people who cannot afford to spend much).
■ verb [no obj] bottom (out) to stop getting lower or worse: The number of people unemployed has risen by 67 000 since bottoming in April. There are signs that the country's economy is bottoming out.
bottoming, bottoming out noun [U; sing.]: a bottoming out in energy prices a bottoming in the economic downturn |
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