slump

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
  2. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.; A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating. broadly,slang
    — TOM. We haven't had sex with each other in five months. MICHAEL. We're in a slump, I know that."
  3. A period of poor performance.
    — If she doesn't pull out of her slump, her job may be in jeopardy.
  4. A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
  5. A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
  6. A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.) broadly
    — The biggest slump in the world - a mega-slump - is in the Russian taiga. Known as the Batagaika crater, it is a kilometre-long gash in the ground, about 70 metres deep, and growing[…]
  7. A boggy place. UK,dialectal
    — The road was all slumps of holes.
  8. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. Scotland
  9. The gross amount; the mass; the lump. Scotland
  10. A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.
    — a blackberry slump
动词 v.
  1. To collapse heavily or helplessly. intransitive
    — Exhausted, he slumped down onto the sofa.
  2. To decline or fall off in activity or performance. intransitive
    — Real estate prices slumped during the recession.
  3. To slouch or droop. intransitive
  4. To lump; to throw together messily. transitive
    — These different groups[…]are exclusively slumped together under that sense.
  5. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc. intransitive
    — The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump.
  6. To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill. slang,transitive

词形变化

slumps present,singular,third-person slumping participle,present slumped participle,past slumped past slumps plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antislump minislump nonslumping slumpage slumpbuster slump down slumper slumpflation slumplike slumpy sophomore slump Trump slump

词源

词源 1
Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Norwegian slumpa (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“randomize; to sell off”), Swedish slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”).
词源 2
Probably of North Germanic origin: compare Danish slumpe (“to stumble upon by chance”), Norwegian slumpe (“happen by chance”), Norwegian slumpa (“happen by chance”), Swedish slumpa (“randomize; to sell off”), Swedish slump (“chance, randomness, happenstance”). Compare also German schlumpen (“to trail; draggle; be sloppy”), dialectal Dutch slompen (“to walk clumsily”).
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