Front | slump |
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Pron | [slʌmp] |
Back | 【slump】v.陷;猛然落下 Our feet slumped repeatedly through the melting ice. 经过融化的冰时,我们的脚一再地陷落。 |
Vocab | slumpfall or sink heavily
To slump is to fall or slouch down. It's also a downturn in performance — a struggling ballplayer and a sinking economy are both in a slump. There are many kinds of slumps, but they all involve things going downhill. If you slide down in your chair, you slump. Other slumps are less physical. If a successful quarterback starts losing games and throwing interceptions, that's a slump. The original meaning of slump, back in the 1670s, was "fall or sink into a muddy place," while the more figurative meanings came much later. All forms of 'slump' will appear on average once every 1170 pages. slump |
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