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单词 rock bottom
释义
rock bottom
noun[U]
informal
uk
/ˌrɒk ˈbɒt.əm/us
/ˌrɑːk ˈbɑː.t̬əm/

rock bottomnoun[U](LOW)

thelowestpossiblelevel:
最低点；最低水平
Confidence in thegovernmentisatrockbottom.民众对政府的信任降到了谷底。
Prices havereachedrockbottom.物价跌到了最低点。
They weresellingthegoodsat rock-bottomprices.他们以最低价销售货物。
The president'sapprovalratingshavehitrockbottom.总统的支持率已跌至最低点。
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  • heyday
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  • high tide
  • Indian summer
  • peak
  • pinnacle
  • plumb
  • plumb the depthsidiom
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Costing little or no money

rock bottomnoun[U](UNHAPPY)

the mostunhappythat someone haseverbeen intheirlife:
（生活中的）最低点，最不愉快的时刻
Dan had justleftme and I wasatrockbottom.丹刚刚离我而去，我心情糟到了极点。
Alcoholics often have toreach/hitrockbottombefore they canrecognizethat they have aproblem.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
  • a hard/tough row to hoeidiom
  • abyss
  • adversity
  • atyourworstidiom
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  • bad hair day
  • emergence
  • epidemic
  • genie
  • half nelson
  • hardness
  • have a bumpy rideidiom
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  • rabbit hole
  • reversal
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(Definition ofrock bottomfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

rock-bottom| American Dictionary

rock-bottom
adjective
infml
us
/ˈrɑk ˈbɑt·əm/
at thelowestpossiblelevelor in theworstsituation:
rock-bottomprices
Theteamhitrockbottom,losing12gamesin arow.
(Definition ofrock-bottomfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

rock bottom| Business English

rock bottom
noun[U]
informal
uk
us
thelowestpossiblelevel:
Themarkethashitrockbottom.
Theshareshavereachedrockbottom.
rock bottom
adjective[before noun]
(alsorock-bottom)
uk
us
used todescribesomething that hasreacheditslowestlevel:
rock-bottomprices/interestrates
The Federal Reserve Board hasbegunliftingshort-terminterestratesfromrockbottomlevels.
(Definition ofrock bottomfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrock bottom

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They formulate the position that they refute as the view that ' 'individuals are more fundamental than social structures, they are therock-bottomof any explanation.
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Of course, the truth, or truths, may not reside atrock-bottomlevels in any empirically attainable or theoretically interpretative representation.
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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 atrock-bottomprices.
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When wage-cutting reaches what may be calledrock-bottom, other forms of economy just as relentless have been pursued and employed.
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What he has missed are therock-bottomfacts of life as they affect the ordinary people.
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That is, perhaps, therock-bottomreason why we are unable to get this problem tackled.
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The policy should be to fix the price atrock-bottombelow 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 atrock-bottom.
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By 1924 we had reached what we thought wasrock-bottom.
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It is what is described as arock-bottomstandard.
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This pernicious system offers onlyrock-bottomchoice to the parents and imposes most severe strains and pressures upon them and their children.
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The indications are that probablyrock-bottomhas 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 therock-bottomof architectural practice.
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The focus on quantity atrock-bottomprices merely results in ecological and economic problems.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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