trough
trough 英 [trɒf] 美 [trɔf]
n. 水槽,水槽;低谷期;饲料槽;低气压
名词复数:troughs
- If you live on a farm, you already know that a trough is what animals eat out of. The word actually refers to the shape of the container, and can mean anything that is low and hollowed out––like a curve on a graph or a depression in the ground.
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- n. 水槽,水槽;低谷期;饲料槽;低气压
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1. These cycles often take a generation to play out from peak to trough and to peak again.
这些周期经常要让一代人经历从高峰到低谷、再从低谷到高峰的漫长过程。
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2. The consulting firm McKinsey &Co. encourages its consultants to build a "spike, " or perhaps it should be called a trough: a deep knowledge of a specific industry or practice.
麦肯锡公司鼓励自己的咨询顾问建立一根“鞋钉”,或者可以将其称之为水槽:对于某种特定行业或业务的深入的知识。
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3. But economists do not necessarily expect the trough in production to be long.
但是,经济学家并不一定认为生产低潮会持续很长时间。
- trough (n.) Old English trog "wooden vessel, tray, hollow vessel, canoe," from Proto-Germanic *trugaz (source also of Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old Norse trog, Middle Dutch troch, Dutch trog, Old High German troc, German trog), from PIE *dru-ko-, from root *deru- "be firm, solid, steadfast," with specialized senses "wood, tree" and derivatives referring to objects made of wood. Originally pronounced in English with a hard -gh- (as in Scottish loch); pronunciation shifted to "-ff," but spelling remained.
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