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Slump Plump Slip Dump Fall Decline 6904.Slump 英

正面 6904.slump
英 [slʌmp]美 [slʌmp]

背面
释义:
vi. 下降,衰落;倒下;大幅度下降,暴跌vt. 使降低;使衰落;使倒下n. 衰退;暴跌;消沉
例句:
1. Because of the slump in domestic demand, production has stopped.由于国内需求大幅下降,生产已经停止。

音:死落扑,这人死了猛然落下扑倒在地2. 谐音“是落坡、是落魄、使落魄、使落破、是南坡、衰落破”-----衰落、破产。3. slump <====> plums: 李子大批地、一坨一坨地掉落。4. -lump / -ump 结尾的词有象声词,砰然落下的味道: flump 砰然声, 重落, plump 扑通一声倒下,dump 倾倒,jump 跳起.5. slip + dump => slump.6. slip + plump (扑通一声倒下) => slump.7. dump => slump.8. plump, lump, bump: 因为撞击而形成并引申出的肿块、大块、丰满、圆胖之意。所以它们的本义都是模拟撞击的声音。9. s-(谐音“摔”) + lump: 重重地摔下形成一个大大的肿块。

slump (v.)1670s, "fall or sink into a muddy place," probably from a Scandinavian source such as Norwegian and Danish slumpe "fall upon," Swedish slumpa; perhaps ultimately of imitative origin. Related: Slumped; slumping. The word "slump," or "slumped," has too coarse a sound to be used by a lady. [Eliza Leslie, "Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book," Philadelphia, 1839] Economic sense from 1888.slump (n.)"act of slumping, slumping movement," 1850; "heavy decline in prices on the stock exchange," 1888, from slump (v.). Generalized by 1922 to "sharp decline in trade or business.""

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