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Definition of bottom in English: bottomnoun ˈbɒtəmˈbɑdəm 1The lowest point or part of something. 底部，底层 页面底部。 she paused at the bottom of the stairs 她在楼梯底下停了片刻。 Example sentencesExamples - The other vans, a total of eight more, came to rest at the bottom of the ramp, all in a row, and released their occupants.
- Music is really represented all over the brain, in the left and the right; in the top and the bottom; in the front and the back.
- She laid on her stomach with her feet resting at the bottom of her bed.
- Perhaps more interesting is the part at the bottom of the piece… around fifty languages have only one living speaker.
- In 1997 there was a succession of astonishing Labour gains which could only be briefly noted by a red bar at the bottom of the TV screen.
- When I hover over a link, I expect to be able to see where it leads, simply by looking at my status bar at the bottom of the browser.
- Contact information is included at the bottom of the page.
- Instead of covering this as if it were the top story, put it on the bottom of the front page.
- At the bottom of the front page is a box stating: ‘As always, your feedback is very welcome.’
- It is correctly aligned, or oriented, showing the south of the river at the bottom.
- The change effected appears at the bottom of page 186 and the top of 187.
- You can get to each section using the Table of Contents at the bottom of this page.
- They've signposted content with clear navigation and put neat section headers at the bottom of the front page.
- They traced the length of her neck, stopping to rest at the bottom of her throat.
- Then an electrical wire is run along the rod to the light bulb where it is soldered to the side and the bottom of the base.
- He was standing at the bottom of the stairs, and she stood at the top.
- If the Finance Sector proposition set out at the bottom of page 359 is correct, that is sufficient for our purposes.
- It was going to be a long trek down to where it rested near the bottom of the mountain.
- He paused at the bottom of the stairs and surveyed all his stuff.
- Bri did not dare to move until she heard his shuffling feet and tired grunts descend to the bottom of the stairs and fade into the kitchen.
- We found frequent vertical cracks cutting across all 39 sediment layers from the bottom to the top.
- Try to keep it evenly sprinkled from the top to the bottom of the page.
- The cartoon can be found near the bottom of this page in the ‘cartoons’ section.
- From the tip of the blade to the bottom of the hilt it has to be as long as I am tall!
Synonyms foot, lowest part, lowest point, base, extremity foundation, basis, support, substructure, substratum, groundwork, underpinning - 1.1 The ground under a sea, river, or lake.
（海、河或湖的）底，底部 the liner plunged to the bottom of the sea 她在楼梯底下停了片刻。 Example sentencesExamples - As I said, I have come from the bottom to the surface in a hundred-foot deep water.
- However, you failed to mention to the ratepayers all the chemicals that exist at the bottom of the lake.
- That's because it depends on whether the iceberg is floating or resting on the bottom.
- In addition, Thoreau notices circular heaps of stones about six feet in diameter that sit on the pond bottom.
- In many areas along the shoreline, the bottom of the lake dropped off quickly to greater depths.
- Scientists say the city was submerged at the bottom of the lake about 2,000 or 3,000 years ago for unknown reasons.
- Resting on the bottom or in the sediment are wrecks, such as an oil freighter and a Spanish galleon.
- Mostly the water is shallow, merely a couple of hundred meters deep, and you can always see the surface or the bottom or frequently both.
- Similarly, providing a layer of river sand at the bottom of the well or depositing small bundles of charcoal in the well are beneficial.
- As there was no wind, it was quite clear from the surface to the bottom so that we could see clearly even at a distance of twenty to thirty yards.
- A muck of built up sewage and slime sits at the bottom of the deep slow moving polluted water.
- A hero firefighter who pulled a young girl from the bottom of a lake was today awarded the Queen's Commendation for Bravery.
- Many trolleys removed from supermarkets return damaged or end up at the bottom of a local lake or river.
- ‘I had my suspicions that there might be relics from the film at the bottom of the river,’ he says.
- We first started to notice several dead fish on the bottom of the river.
- Their fertile farmland now lay at the bottom of the lake.
- It is encrusted in pink algae and offers a nice contrast to the wreck, which is resting on a sandy bottom.
- The depth they cruise at varies between the surface and the bottom.
- Additional studies will determine if the rocks were laid down by minerals formed at the bottom of a salty lake or sea.
- The first clown I buddied up with spent the entire dive hurtling between the bottom and the surface.
Synonyms floor, bed, ground, depths - 1.2 The lowest surface on the inside of a container.
place the fruit on the bottom of the dish 把水果放在碟子的底部。 Example sentencesExamples - One trick I have learnt is to put some bulbs at the bottom of the container so they flower in spring.
- They're too tough, and the husk is still attached, and I always end up leaving them at the bottom of the container.
- Some retailers put bad or rotten fruit in the bottom of the basket.
- Spread the vegetables out to cover the bottom of the roasting dish.
- Avoid wetting the foliage, and soak the soil until you see water draining through the bottom of the container.
- Lightly butter the inside and line the bottom with baking paper.
- For the wick, measure out a few more inches of string than is needed to reach the bottom of the container.
- Rune poured the steaming tea into the cup, letting the leaves twirl around and finally rest on the bottom.
- He was devastated and resigned himself to a life without joy or love, choosing instead to look for his heart in the bottom of a bottle.
- So I threw it into the bottom of the bin and covered it with a pile of old Canberra Times.
- In the bottom of the container there was a reservoir of water, and above it an apparatus caused electrical arcs to crackle.
- Liquids can only fill the bottom of the container while gases can fill it entirely.
- Once all the wax in the bottom of the container is melted your candle is finished.
- Stir it all together and then use the mixture to line the bottom of a serving dish.
- The coffee has been sinking to the bottom of the container and creating an icy layer.
- The wide mouth of the packaging allows consumers to easily dip down to the bottom of the container.
- Place broken crocks in the bottom of the planting container to ensure good drainage and add the compost mixture to the level of the base of the lowest layer of bulbs.
- Ensure good drainage by inserting a good layer, three to four inches deep, of gravel or shattered clay pots at the bottom of your container.
- Her lazy swimming halted, and her feet found the rough surface of the bottom of the pool.
- 1.3 The seat of a chair.
（椅子的）座部，座面 - 1.4British The furthest part or point of something.
底部，底层 the shed at the bottom of the garden 她在楼梯底下停了片刻。 Example sentencesExamples - What goes on in the shed at the bottom of the garden?
- His neighbours report that if he does exhibit any mild eccentricity, it is only his habit of spending hours locked in the shed at the bottom of his Oxford garden.
- Mrs God would have been furious if she had found out that, after lunch, he was in the shed at the bottom of the garden tinkering with bits of disused jet aircraft.
- The house I might be buying has a shed at the bottom of the garden that has been used as a sculpture studio.
- Think of British inventors and you picture lone eccentrics toiling away in a shed at the bottom of the garden, seeking to make discoveries of genius.
- The shed was at the bottom of the garden and it is believed whoever started the fire escaped via an alleyway running alongside the house.
- Of course, the smoke did not affect their own houses because the bonfire was at the bottom of their gardens.
- This morning it appears that the sheds at the bottom of the gardens in this street have been burgled in the night.
- So we built an aerial runway for our creations that went from Sean's bedroom down to his dad's shed at the bottom of the garden.
- Amongst the singing and chit-chat someone was asked to get something from the shed at the bottom of the garden.
Synonyms the furthest part, the farthest point, the far end, the extremity - 1.5 The lowest position in a competition or ranking.
底层；最低下的部分 he started at the bottom and now has his own business 他从最底层做起，现在已经有了自己的事业。 Example sentencesExamples - And unsecured creditors are always at the bottom of the totem pole.
- It's an appropriate metaphor for a state mired near the bottom of national rankings in poverty and education.
- By putting the candidate whom you least want to see elected at the bottom of your ranking, you are helping to defeat him/her.
- The district is beginning to climb away from its position near the bottom of the national league.
- It looked as though we went out with the thought it would be easy against the team that is sitting bottom of the league.
- The settlement gives more to higher grade officers then it does to those at the bottom of the ladder.
- People who buy stock in these companies under American law wind up at the bottom of the totem pole in the bankruptcy proceeding.
- We are very aware of our position at the bottom of society, and we use this awareness to make sure we do what we must do.
- Jan Molby's men have conceded just three goals and lost just the once on their own turf, but it is a lack of firepower up front which has seen them drop to just two points off the bottom.
- They were dark days for the Elephants, who soldiered on with young talent but never climbed up from the bottom of the rankings.
- I know schools can be transformative - even for those at the bottom of the ladder.
- I understand that to be bottom after eight matches is not the best situation but I honestly feel there were a lot of reasons for that.
- However, it may be some consolation that the western visitors are third from the bottom with only four points from four outings.
- To take bronze in such a favourable scenario is like tottering at the bottom in any serious competition
- ‘If there is pain it will be shared from the top to the bottom of the organisation’, said the source.
- In the arena of open competition, the talkers are quickly moved to the bottom of the rankings.
- Sheffield have a habit of doing well against the top teams but poorly against sides nearer the bottom.
- The aim is to eventually inculcate the expertise to manage and control the energy sector from the bottom to the top.
- Last year it tumbled to the bottom of the official rankings when it failed to score a single star in the government rating system.
- Sitting bottom of the league, the whole team are now in a bit of a hole and now it's a case of seeing if they can dig themselves out.
Synonyms lowest level, lowest position, least important part, least successful part, least honourable part - 1.6 The lower half of a specified two-piece garment.
（两件套衣服的）下半身（如睡裤） 睡裤。 Example sentencesExamples - She had changed from her mini skirt into pajama bottoms and a tight-fitting t-shirt that had an unprintable logo on it.
- It took Emily at least twenty minutes to coax Callie from the bathroom floor, and even longer to get her dressed in a long-sleeve shirt and pajama bottoms.
- He is 30 minutes late and hardly cuts an imposing figure, dressed shabbily in an old pair of tracksuit bottoms and trainers, polo shirt and fleece.
- She had on a two piece dress; the top was tight and cut off right above her navel, the bottom rested on her hips.
- The top was tied off around the neck and the bottom was bikini style with a short flowing mini skirt over top.
- Do you think there's any correlation between its rise in popularity and its participants wearing bikini bottoms and sports bras?
- I cut strips from the bottom of the sarong and sliced slits in the waist of the bikini bottom.
- I'm sitting in my dressing gown and tracksuit bottoms, having spent the whole day in bed.
- Jade was in a green bikini top with the bottom of her suit covered by a pair of blue jeans.
- Closing the basement door, she quickly changed into a pair of green pajama bottoms and a white tank top.
- She still had an hour and a half, so she dressed in pajama bottoms and a shirt she stole from Vince's bag.
- It was a black bikini halter with matching bottoms, a pair of swim shorts that had floral Hawaii prints on the side and a red shirt that had the sleeves ripped off with buttons undone.
- Tracey approached the pool area, towel draped around her neck and a sarong covering the bottom of her bikini.
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another term for bottomland Example sentencesExamples - It is primarily restricted to flat or sloping grasslands, often along valley bottoms or areas adjacent to vernal pools.
- Beesley explains that the frantic mining had huge impacts on rivers and valley bottoms.
- 1.8 The keel or hull of a ship.
龙骨，船体 the double bottoms of the ship 页面底部。 Synonyms base, bottom side, underside - 1.9archaic A ship, especially a cargo carrier.
〈古〉船（尤指货船）
2British A person's buttocks. he climbs the side of the gorge, scratching his bottom unselfconsciously Example sentencesExamples - Theorton removed his bottom from his chair and walked around his old friend.
- As Vernon explains, the slow, rhythmic grinding, bumping and shaking is great for toning bottoms, abdominal muscles, thighs, backs and arms.
- But, more to the point, do we really want the old blokes of the future to have cheeks as soft as babies' bottoms; to have foreheads as smooth as velvet and, overall, to appear as rugged as a sand dune?
- At birth the newborn emerges into a world suddenly filled with sensations, including possibly a slap on the bottom.
- ‘My bottom was flat from sitting in planes in November and December,’ said Woods.
- I'm totally sick of all these ads for baby products that have babies' bottoms hanging out all over the place.
- The next thing she knew, Effie was sitting on her bottom in the snow and the Indian was standing over her, holding her gun.
- Many of them had a young baby girl smiling while sitting on her bottom in the tall grass or while teetering across a bridge or on a sidewalk.
- The service was also superb, with the Royal Cliff's noiseless way of slipping a chair under the waiting bottom almost a trademark.
- Sensors can be fitted to various parts of the operator's anatomy - for example, to the elbows to check interior space, or to bottoms for sensing seating positions.
- She shook her head and sat down on her bottom, hair falling over her face.
- What I'm wondering is why monkeys would pay to see monkey bottoms when those bottoms are hanging out naked to see all the time.
- She sat in a very undignified position, with only the dusty ground on which to rest her bottom which condemned her to exceptional discomfort.
- At the very end of this long table was a rather large chair edged with more gold upon which the king himself sat his royal bottom.
- Dusk extended his right leg forward and Shi rested her bottom on his leg.
- The next step is administration of rabies immunoglobulin, with half of it directly into the wound and the rest into your waiting bottom!
- I will also require a velveteen cushion on which to rest my boil-covered bottom.
Synonyms rear, rump, rear end, backside, seat buttocks, cheeks, hindquarters, haunches French derrière German Sitzfleisch technical nates informal behind, sit-upon, stern, BTM, tochus, rusty dusty British informal bum, botty, prat, jacksie Scottish informal bahookie North American informal butt, fanny, tush, tushie, tail, duff, buns, booty, caboose, heinie, patootie, keister, tuchis, bazoo, bippy West Indian informal batty, rass humorous fundament, posterior British vulgar slang arse, clunge North American vulgar slang ass archaic breech 3Physics
mass noun One of six flavours of quark. 底夸克 Example sentencesExamples - B-mesons are similar to neutral kaons but consist of an anti-down quark and a heavy bottom quark.
- Each quark can be chosen from any of six flavours: up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top.
4archaic mass noun Stamina or strength of character. 〈古〉（尤指马的）持久力，耐力 whatever his faults, he possesses that old-fashioned quality—bottom 5vulgar slang A man who takes the passive role in anal intercourse with another man.
adjective ˈbɒtəmˈbɑdəm 1In the lowest position. 最底层的，最下的 the books on the bottom shelf 底层架子上的书。 Example sentencesExamples - So I've just put everything on the bottom shelf in the cupboard.
- I think one of my bottom teeth is going to fall out soon.
- Beside the bottom bunk was a small table with two shelves above it.
- Cathy knelt in front of the bookcases, pulling things from the bottom shelves.
- Danielle cut the top layer of Holly's hair shorter than the bottom layer, so the ends of Holly's hair can now be flipped out.
- So we decided we'd dig the whole lot out and put the bottom storey underground.
- The base of the camera struck me and cut my bottom lip.
- An unopened toothbrush and tube of toothpaste lay in the bottom shelf.
- He removes the bottom bin, and finds the reservoir is frozen solid.
- A sparkling shiny piece of silver metal caught her eye from the bottom shelf of the back wall of the closet.
- Then, I sit up, with my hands pressed to a bottom board of the shelf, pushing myself upwards.
- She grabbed the railing for support and lowered herself on the bottom step.
- He sat down on the bottom step to the basement and she perched next to him.
- The children's books have occupied the bottom shelves where children can easily access them.
- Defrost it in the fridge in a large bowl on the bottom shelf, so the juices don't drip onto anything else.
- But don't forget the fine print at the bottom right of the poster.
- On the bottom layer, start with a very thin layer of jam.
- She goes to the fridge and from a cask on the bottom shelf pours me a glass.
- On the bottom shelf was the cardboard carton containing the incense sticks.
- One of the best magazines we discovered was not at Frieze but tucked away on the bottom shelf of the bookshop at Tate Modern.
Synonyms lowest, last, bottommost, undermost, ground technical basal - 1.1 (of a place) in the furthest position away in a downhill direction.
（下山方向的）最远处的 山下远处的田野。 Example sentencesExamples - This leads downhill and just before the bottom corner of the field is reached cross the stile on your left and enter the woodland.
- We made our way along the bottom road that was closest to the lake.
- Divided into top and bottom terraces, both provide an incredible view to the Black Sea.
- The top terrace consists of a lawn surrounded by borders, the bottom terrace is a small, mown orchard.
- Has the day come when now you check the computer for your cattle numbers instead of having to go down to the bottom field to do so?
- 1.2 In the lowest or last position in a competition or ranking.
底层；最低下的部分 I was put in the bottom class 我被安排在了最差的班级。 they came bottom with 17 points 他们仅得了17分，排名最后。 Example sentencesExamples - All 12 teams make the play-offs with the bottom eight competing in the best of three preliminary round.
- But the region lagged behind in wages, with most local government areas in the bottom third for average weekly incomes.
- The share for middle and bottom income earners suffered declines of about 5 percent.
- The top two from each pool will progress to the cup competition, while the bottom two will get a second bite of the cherry in the plate.
- As a first-grader at another school, she read at the bottom level of her class.
- Lots of students who have achieved greatness were in the bottom half of their class.
- Tutoring beyond first grade was made on the basis of performance in the bottom third of class level scores.
- You might want to temporarily cut rates for the bottom two income brackets.
- Canada is increasingly divided between the few who have much and a growing bottom class that has little.
- The bottom half of the income distribution is unlikely to save for retirement in illiquid accounts on a voluntary basis.
- The poor choice of song even caused her a position in the bottom 3.
- Living wage advocates are stepping up a campaign to ensure the benefits of prosperity extend to those at the bottom end of the income scale.
- As of 2000, this top layer had an income 10 times that of the bottom fifth of families.
- It goes to the 70 percent of the taxpayers who are in the bottom brackets.
- In some cases, pupils who had originally been in the bottom quarter of the class produced work that put them in the middle half of the class.
- Coming in with 18 points, Jim had no competitors for the bottom spot.
- Caregivers are positioned at the bottom reaches of the health-care system.
verb ˈbɒtəmˈbɑdəm 1no object (of a ship) reach or touch the ground under the sea. （船）到达海底，触到海底 nuclear submarines cannot bottom 核潜艇不能沉到海底。 Example sentencesExamples - British Waterways, which has to keep the river navigable, is under pressure to remove the silt after complaints that boats are bottoming on the river bed.
- Once bottomed, Dechaineux fired a series of yellow smoke candles every half an hour until found.
- 1.1Australian, NZ with object Excavate (a hole or mine) to the level of a mineral-bearing stratum.
〈澳／新西兰〉钻探…直到矿物层 scores of abandoned claims have never been properly bottomed, according to the old prospectors - 1.2Australian, NZ no object Find gold or other minerals while mining.
〈澳／新西兰〉勘探到金子（或其他矿物） he's bottomed on opal there 他在那儿找到了蛋白石。 - 1.3archaic with object Find the extent or real nature of.
〈古〉发现…范围（或本质） he had bottomed the whole inquiry
2no object (of a situation) reach the lowest point before stabilizing or improving. （成绩，局势）到达最低点后趋于平衡；走出低谷 encouraging signs suggested the recession was bottoming out 令人鼓舞的迹象表明经济萧条正在走出低谷。 Example sentencesExamples - My clubhead has bottomed out well before it has reached the tee and will be on the way back up by the time it strikes the ball.
- After bottoming out three years ago, unemployment now stands at 6.4 percent, and the economic recovery is sluggish.
- One author predicted that the Dow is likely to fall as much as ninety-eight percent in early 2000s, and the market will probably not bottom out until it reaches a level of ninety-five.
- On the positive side, there is now emerging consensus in the trade that the price crash is close to bottoming out.
- After more than a decade firmly ensconced among golf's elite, the seven-time European No.1 bottomed out at No.83 in the world.
- We used to be able to make the budget on half a year's worth (of decent attendance), but now the lack of interest seems to be the trend for baseball in Canada and I hope that it bottoms out soon.
- Although the situation has improved since bottoming out in 1998, the number of people facing the threat of poverty is from 30 percent to 60 percent of the population.
- But circulation plummeted in the Boston years, bottoming out at 25,000, with subscribers receiving fundraising pleas as often as renewal notices.
- In the afternoon, the tide bottomed out which pushed the bowl out of reach of any paddle surfer.
- ‘While the vacancy rate in Dublin is still relatively high in a European context, there is evidence that the situation is now bottoming out,’ Hunt said.
- There is only so much the construction industry can achieve before it bottoms out.
- We are currently going through the worst industry recession I have ever known, but there are signs that it's bottoming out.
- Newsprint prices have risen steadily since bottoming out at $435 per metric ton in 2002.
- The consensus was that things were bottoming out, but in recent months the picture has got even grimmer.
- Under age cattle are beginning to become scarce and price is now bottoming out.
- People's lives have improved, unemployment is bottoming out at about 4%, and there are no grievances severe enough to make people resort to arms.
- Until the equity markets bottom out and values stabilise, it is unlikely that the overhang of office space will be fully absorbed.
- ‘When I say that markets have bottomed out, I'm not implying that a rally is likely to follow in the months ahead,’ he said.
- Office markets across Europe will begin to bottom out this year, and the improving economic climate will begin to have a greater impact on offices in the middle of next year, Axford predicted.
- Higher tuition fees means an increase in international student enrolment, an increase in the number of rich Canadians at universities and colleges, and the bottoming out in attendance of poor Canadians.
Phrases at bottom, science is exploration 本质上，科学就是探险。 Example sentencesExamples - Once the novel language is stripped away, it is apparent that most of these supposed new challenges are, at bottom, techniques.
- This is because corruption is not at bottom simply a matter of law; rather it is fundamentally a matter of morality.
- But one thing that has disturbed me has been the number of people who, at bottom, don't seem to really believe in grace or mercy.
- At bottom, Greenberg's theology rests on the conviction that the Holocaust was a revelatory event.
- Likewise, we want Harry Angel to have, at bottom, a pure heart.
- Her approach on economic issues is, at bottom, quite similar.
- Reading it, one might be tempted to think that at bottom García Márquez has remained as unpolitical as when he started out.
- One need not trivialize the fears of religious parents to recognize that this is at bottom a complaint against democracy itself.
- We rest, at bottom, on the inherent dignity of the individual.
- After all, Manning states, agriculture is culture, and, at bottom, is about the integrity of individual lives.
Synonyms fundamentally, primarily, principally, chiefly, essentially, elementally, firstly, predominantly
Be the basic cause or origin of (something) 远端，尽头 he knew what was at the bottom of it—Jane wanted them to live together 他知道真正的原因——简希望他们能生活在一起。 Example sentencesExamples - The Daily Telegraph suggests personal animosity is at the bottom of the tug of war.
- Mrs Dunwiddy believed in economy, and pine-scented hard toilet paper was at the bottom of her economy drive.
- The information made him suspect that female skulduggery was at the bottom of it.
- He has quite a tale about trying to get a hotel room and the pathetic computer system that was at the bottom of all his woes.
- The truth is that at the bottom, or the core, or heart - call it what you will - is nothingness.
- I think we all share a vision of wonder that is at the bottom of all this.
- As with most things that are currently popular, money is at the bottom of it all - breweries and advertisers being the real winners here.
- Greed is at the bottom of all the problems of the world.
- Either consciously or subconsciously, large numbers of people have so much of a problem that they are inventing a disease - and fear has to be at the bottom of that.
- Ambition, a determination to scale some height, seems to have been at the bottom of Disraeli's character.
the bottom falls (or drops) out Used to refer to the sudden collapse or failure of something. 出现暴跌（或垮台）的局面 the bottom fell out of the market for classic cars 高级轿车市场暴跌。 Example sentencesExamples - It's not like he signs it and the bottom falls out of the market.
- In the modern professionalized situation, the bottom drops out of small-group reciprocal altruism.
- I guess the bottom drops out when her perfect life doesn't come out exactly like she wants it.
- That's because historically, the bottom falls out of the new car market after it has had two record sales years.
- Then, predictably, the bottom drops out of Jamal's career.
- Without that the bottom falls out of our value system and invites nihilism.
- You settle into a routine, and you go along like that for years, but then, suddenly, the bottom drops out from under you?
- Otherwise you become overwhelmed and the bottom drops out.
- Consumer confidence edged lower for the last three months, but the level of confidence remains strong and that's probably going to continue, unless the bottom falls out of the labor market.
- That doesn't much prepare you for when the bottom drops out, though, and it does with a mighty yawn.
historical Used to refer to a tax evasion scheme involving asset stripping and the apparent loss of company records. in many cases, the company is just wound up, and it all goes to the bottom of the harbour the bottom of the harbour schemes will continue unchecked Example sentencesExamples - It uncovered large-scale white collar fraud, including companies being consigned to the bottom of the harbour to avoid their tax liabilities.
- When the bottom of the harbour schemes were uncovered, the government of the day changed laws and even backdated changes to get back the tax revenue that had been lost.
- The whole basis of the legendary "bottom of the harbour schemes" was the conversion of income to a capital gain which was tax free at the time.
- The moniker was awarded to him because he fought the attempts to promote dodgy Bottom of the Harbour tax evasion schemes.
- Faith in Australia's tax system was recovering from the all-time low of the bottom of the harbour scams of the 1970s and early 1980s.
- This week's events hark back to the 1980s, to the days of the notorious "bottom of the harbour" tax schemes.
- A former senior accountant argues that "Tax avoidance as bad as bottom of the harbour schemes".
- Those decisions had led to the infamous "Bottom of the Harbour" tax avoidance schemes and consequent massive losses to revenue.
- The blitz on tax havens and money laundering is already bigger than the bottom of the harbour investigations that shook the government.
- For years there were the "bottom of the harbour" tax evasion schemes whereby companies manipulated their accounts to avoid taxation.
informal Used to express friendly feelings towards one's companions before drinking. 〈非正式〉干杯！ Example sentencesExamples - From the looks of you, it seems to me that you might be a big drinker. Bottoms up?
- After largely ignoring the typed speech, he came to the end of his comments by saying: ‘I am declaring this plant officially open, so it's bottoms up!’
Synonyms here's to you, good health, your health, here's health, skol, good luck
Starting at the lower end or beginning of a hierarchy or process and proceeding to the top or end. 从最底层做起；从头学起 we began to study history from the bottom up 我们从头学历史。 Example sentencesExamples - Partnership encourages good communication from the bottom up so all are involved in the process.
- ‘Some of the ideas put forward by the original consultants were ridiculous, and they tried to do it from the top down rather than from the bottom up and take into account the views of people on the ground,’ he said.
- But, in a process described as working from the bottom up, three codes were drawn up by the relevant industries.
- You can tell he's a beginner because he canvasses council flats from the bottom up.
- Second, adaptation processes that are built from the bottom up and are based on social capital can alter the perceptions of climate change from a global to a local problem.
- Many of the volumes draw inspiration from the so-called subaltern approach, which generally focuses on history from the bottom up.
- The historical process has unfolded from the bottom up.
- Repeat this process, working from the bottom up, until all the damaged boards are removed.
- They are wrong in assuming either approach could offer a stable alternative to the long process of building democracy from the bottom up.
- Change needs to come from the bottom up and it's only real people that make a difference.
Find an explanation for (a mystery) 探明…的真相；弄清…的起因；寻到…的根子 the health authority was determined to get to the bottom of what went wrong Example sentencesExamples - Anyway, with the hopes of getting to the bottom of the house buzzing mystery, I typed up a letter to the residents of the building and dropped it in their mail slot.
- They're not quite able to do all these things, but you can be sure that Tom gets to the bottom of the Claire mystery.
- I decided to do my own mini-analysis to get to the bottom of the hotel ranking mystery.
- I'm going to try to understand the various important issues, and try to get to the bottom of what's true and what's not.
- Like Larry Tate in Bewitched, which ran on ABC at the same time, the senior man in I Dream Of Jeannie never quite got to the bottom of all the mysteries surrounding his underling.
- In all the time that he was here I never really felt that I got to the bottom of what made him tick.
- We're going to do a real investigation here, spend some substantial, significant time with him getting to the bottom of what happened and how he escaped.
- Two days later, investigators were still trying to get to the bottom of what actually sparked the blaze.
- Unfortunately whether or not John McLaurin got to the bottom of the mystery of Volusia County is something the memos cannot tell us.
- The most important thing that the family did ask was to ensure that we got to the bottom of what exactly happened at the plant.
Synonyms origin, cause, root, source, starting point, core, centre, heart, kernel, base, basis, foundation
Cause (something) to collapse or fail suddenly. 使突然坍塌（或失败） a shortfall in supplies would knock the bottom out of the engineering industry 物资供应不足会使机械制造业崩溃。 Example sentencesExamples - Last week's profit warning knocked the bottom out of the share price.
- This year they had all seen how vulnerable they were when it knocked the bottom out of the tourist season.
you (can) bet your bottom dollar informal Used to state one's conviction that a particular thing is going to happen. 〈非正式，主北美〉深信，确信 you can bet your bottom dollar it'll end in tears 可以确信，这定会以眼泪收场。 Example sentencesExamples - The report said nothing that these guys didn't already know, and you can bet your bottom dollar that this audit report will not be the end of the matter.
- But you can bet your bottom dollar that the guy who owns this personal site is going to get a high bandwidth bill this month.
- And on top of that you can bet your bottom dollar that we won't be rushing to get your car ready after this outburst.
- Because however worthy the cause, you can bet your bottom dollar that the person sporting it is feeling worthier - it's akin to giving yourself a very public pat on the back.
- Maybe there won't be the obligatory made-for-TV movies in the next few months but you can bet your bottom dollar that some ‘documentary’ directors will be banging on his front door.
- I may work my new ritual alone, physically, but you can bet your bottom dollar that I've talked that ritual over with my fellow travelers, and their insights and energies are with me when I work it.
- If this is perceived by some people as a success in England, then you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be introduced in Scotland soon enough as well.
- So when it comes to the crunch next weekend, you can bet your bottom dollar that they'll deliver the goods… and that they'll do it in style.
- He's leaving some time next year and he will be replaced by a board which you can bet your bottom dollar will be more amenable to the government.
- Having said that, you can bet your bottom dollar that I'll be back.
Derivativesadjective Lowest in place or rank. he examined the bottom-most layers of the sediment Example sentencesExamples - peasants at the bottom-most rung of society
- You just pour melted chocolate into the bottommost bowl.
- Lastly, about the bottommost right portion of a web page, many people are actually having a hard time figuring out how to include the keywords in this section.
- It is common in geology to regard the age of the bottommost organic sediments in wetlands as minimal estimates for the time of deglaciation or withdrawal of proglacial water bodies.
OriginOld English botm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bodem 'bottom, ground' and German Boden 'ground, earth'. booty from Late Middle English: The original core meaning of booty was ‘to distribute’. Victors in war divided the booty stolen from an enemy among themselves. The modern American word meaning ‘a person's bottom or buttocks’ is unconnected. It is probably an alteration of botty (late 19th century) in the same sense, itself an alteration of bottom, an Old English word used for the buttocks since the late 18th century. If someone urges you to shake your booty, they want you to dance energetically. A sexy woman has been bootylicious since 1994, although the word was popularized by the single of the same name by Destiny's Child in 2001.
Definition of bottom in US English: bottomnounˈbädəmˈbɑdəm 1The lowest point or part of something. 底部，底层 页面底部。 she paused at the bottom of the stairs 她在楼梯底下停了片刻。 Example sentencesExamples - Music is really represented all over the brain, in the left and the right; in the top and the bottom; in the front and the back.
- If the Finance Sector proposition set out at the bottom of page 359 is correct, that is sufficient for our purposes.
- We found frequent vertical cracks cutting across all 39 sediment layers from the bottom to the top.
- Try to keep it evenly sprinkled from the top to the bottom of the page.
- Bri did not dare to move until she heard his shuffling feet and tired grunts descend to the bottom of the stairs and fade into the kitchen.
- Contact information is included at the bottom of the page.
- From the tip of the blade to the bottom of the hilt it has to be as long as I am tall!
- Instead of covering this as if it were the top story, put it on the bottom of the front page.
- She laid on her stomach with her feet resting at the bottom of her bed.
- It was going to be a long trek down to where it rested near the bottom of the mountain.
- The cartoon can be found near the bottom of this page in the ‘cartoons’ section.
- When I hover over a link, I expect to be able to see where it leads, simply by looking at my status bar at the bottom of the browser.
- He paused at the bottom of the stairs and surveyed all his stuff.
- It is correctly aligned, or oriented, showing the south of the river at the bottom.
- Then an electrical wire is run along the rod to the light bulb where it is soldered to the side and the bottom of the base.
- The change effected appears at the bottom of page 186 and the top of 187.
- At the bottom of the front page is a box stating: ‘As always, your feedback is very welcome.’
- You can get to each section using the Table of Contents at the bottom of this page.
- They've signposted content with clear navigation and put neat section headers at the bottom of the front page.
- Perhaps more interesting is the part at the bottom of the piece… around fifty languages have only one living speaker.
- He was standing at the bottom of the stairs, and she stood at the top.
- In 1997 there was a succession of astonishing Labour gains which could only be briefly noted by a red bar at the bottom of the TV screen.
- The other vans, a total of eight more, came to rest at the bottom of the ramp, all in a row, and released their occupants.
- They traced the length of her neck, stopping to rest at the bottom of her throat.
Synonyms foot, lowest part, lowest point, base, extremity - 1.1 The part on which a thing rests; the underside.
he sat on the bottom of an upturned bucket Example sentencesExamples - Then when Andrew went to check out Michelle's room, he found a tightly sealed container stuck to the bottom of her bed.
- The bottom of the pedestal rested upon the square four-inch-high base, of which one side apparently gave way under pressure.
- I froze when I noticed the nose gear tie-down chain still firmly attached to the bottom of the aircraft.
- Because they are protruding, there is no longer a smooth surface on the bottom of the shuttle.
- The bottom of your heart sits just above the diaphragm and your lungs surround the heart on the sides.
- However when he pressed down on the seat, several screws fell out of the bottom of the vehicle and one of the lights in the back popped out.
- To prevent container from rolling, use a file to create a flat surface on the bottom of the exterior.
- Dance from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet.
- It does flare out again below the side bars, but that is most likely to give it a solid square bottom to rest on.
- From the top of my head to the bottom of my feet, I was covered with diesel oil sludge.
- 1.2 The ground under a sea, river, or lake.
（海、河或湖的）底，底部 the liner plunged to the bottom of the sea 她在楼梯底下停了片刻。 Example sentencesExamples - Their fertile farmland now lay at the bottom of the lake.
- Mostly the water is shallow, merely a couple of hundred meters deep, and you can always see the surface or the bottom or frequently both.
- It is encrusted in pink algae and offers a nice contrast to the wreck, which is resting on a sandy bottom.
- A muck of built up sewage and slime sits at the bottom of the deep slow moving polluted water.
- Many trolleys removed from supermarkets return damaged or end up at the bottom of a local lake or river.
- Additional studies will determine if the rocks were laid down by minerals formed at the bottom of a salty lake or sea.
- The first clown I buddied up with spent the entire dive hurtling between the bottom and the surface.
- Resting on the bottom or in the sediment are wrecks, such as an oil freighter and a Spanish galleon.
- The depth they cruise at varies between the surface and the bottom.
- Scientists say the city was submerged at the bottom of the lake about 2,000 or 3,000 years ago for unknown reasons.
- As I said, I have come from the bottom to the surface in a hundred-foot deep water.
- However, you failed to mention to the ratepayers all the chemicals that exist at the bottom of the lake.
- Similarly, providing a layer of river sand at the bottom of the well or depositing small bundles of charcoal in the well are beneficial.
- In addition, Thoreau notices circular heaps of stones about six feet in diameter that sit on the pond bottom.
- That's because it depends on whether the iceberg is floating or resting on the bottom.
- In many areas along the shoreline, the bottom of the lake dropped off quickly to greater depths.
- A hero firefighter who pulled a young girl from the bottom of a lake was today awarded the Queen's Commendation for Bravery.
- We first started to notice several dead fish on the bottom of the river.
- ‘I had my suspicions that there might be relics from the film at the bottom of the river,’ he says.
- As there was no wind, it was quite clear from the surface to the bottom so that we could see clearly even at a distance of twenty to thirty yards.
Synonyms floor, bed, ground, depths - 1.3 The lowest surface on the inside of a container.
place the fruit on the bottom of the dish 把水果放在碟子的底部。 Example sentencesExamples - For the wick, measure out a few more inches of string than is needed to reach the bottom of the container.
- They're too tough, and the husk is still attached, and I always end up leaving them at the bottom of the container.
- So I threw it into the bottom of the bin and covered it with a pile of old Canberra Times.
- The wide mouth of the packaging allows consumers to easily dip down to the bottom of the container.
- Spread the vegetables out to cover the bottom of the roasting dish.
- Once all the wax in the bottom of the container is melted your candle is finished.
- Rune poured the steaming tea into the cup, letting the leaves twirl around and finally rest on the bottom.
- Lightly butter the inside and line the bottom with baking paper.
- Stir it all together and then use the mixture to line the bottom of a serving dish.
- Ensure good drainage by inserting a good layer, three to four inches deep, of gravel or shattered clay pots at the bottom of your container.
- In the bottom of the container there was a reservoir of water, and above it an apparatus caused electrical arcs to crackle.
- One trick I have learnt is to put some bulbs at the bottom of the container so they flower in spring.
- He was devastated and resigned himself to a life without joy or love, choosing instead to look for his heart in the bottom of a bottle.
- Her lazy swimming halted, and her feet found the rough surface of the bottom of the pool.
- Place broken crocks in the bottom of the planting container to ensure good drainage and add the compost mixture to the level of the base of the lowest layer of bulbs.
- Avoid wetting the foliage, and soak the soil until you see water draining through the bottom of the container.
- Liquids can only fill the bottom of the container while gases can fill it entirely.
- The coffee has been sinking to the bottom of the container and creating an icy layer.
- Some retailers put bad or rotten fruit in the bottom of the basket.
- 1.4 The seat of a chair.
（椅子的）座部，座面 - 1.5 The lowest position in a competition or ranking.
底层；最低下的部分 he started at the bottom and now has his own business 他从最底层做起，现在已经有了自己的事业。 Example sentencesExamples - However, it may be some consolation that the western visitors are third from the bottom with only four points from four outings.
- I know schools can be transformative - even for those at the bottom of the ladder.
- The settlement gives more to higher grade officers then it does to those at the bottom of the ladder.
- The aim is to eventually inculcate the expertise to manage and control the energy sector from the bottom to the top.
- To take bronze in such a favourable scenario is like tottering at the bottom in any serious competition
- Sheffield have a habit of doing well against the top teams but poorly against sides nearer the bottom.
- Last year it tumbled to the bottom of the official rankings when it failed to score a single star in the government rating system.
- We are very aware of our position at the bottom of society, and we use this awareness to make sure we do what we must do.
- It's an appropriate metaphor for a state mired near the bottom of national rankings in poverty and education.
- I understand that to be bottom after eight matches is not the best situation but I honestly feel there were a lot of reasons for that.
- Sitting bottom of the league, the whole team are now in a bit of a hole and now it's a case of seeing if they can dig themselves out.
- In the arena of open competition, the talkers are quickly moved to the bottom of the rankings.
- By putting the candidate whom you least want to see elected at the bottom of your ranking, you are helping to defeat him/her.
- They were dark days for the Elephants, who soldiered on with young talent but never climbed up from the bottom of the rankings.
- The district is beginning to climb away from its position near the bottom of the national league.
- People who buy stock in these companies under American law wind up at the bottom of the totem pole in the bankruptcy proceeding.
- Jan Molby's men have conceded just three goals and lost just the once on their own turf, but it is a lack of firepower up front which has seen them drop to just two points off the bottom.
- ‘If there is pain it will be shared from the top to the bottom of the organisation’, said the source.
- And unsecured creditors are always at the bottom of the totem pole.
- It looked as though we went out with the thought it would be easy against the team that is sitting bottom of the league.
Synonyms lowest level, lowest position, least important part, least successful part, least honourable part - 1.6 The basis or origin.
there's a mad scientist at the bottom of it all Example sentencesExamples - But at the bottom of it all, there is a very different view about what should be done in this country.
- Heresy and a whiff of black magic are at the bottom of it.
- And there is something going on with him, but I'm not sure any of us are at the bottom of it yet.
- There was some form of emotional distress at the bottom of it all.
- Is a freelance criminal operation at the bottom of it all?
- What's so interesting is there's money at the bottom of it, and if your mom will give you a quarter you can make a wish.
- that we lose sight of the fact that, at the bottom of it all, Chardin is a painter's painter.
- It wasn't long before he realised what was really at the bottom of it.
- But hypnosis wouldn't cast a spell if people didn't believe there was real magic at the bottom of it.
- At the bottom of it, there is an idea that unless you can locate it, there is not a trust, I think.
- 1.7 The lower half of a two-piece garment.
睡裤。 性感的比基尼泳裤。 Example sentencesExamples - Closing the basement door, she quickly changed into a pair of green pajama bottoms and a white tank top.
- She still had an hour and a half, so she dressed in pajama bottoms and a shirt she stole from Vince's bag.
- Jade was in a green bikini top with the bottom of her suit covered by a pair of blue jeans.
- Tracey approached the pool area, towel draped around her neck and a sarong covering the bottom of her bikini.
- The top was tied off around the neck and the bottom was bikini style with a short flowing mini skirt over top.
- She had on a two piece dress; the top was tight and cut off right above her navel, the bottom rested on her hips.
- He is 30 minutes late and hardly cuts an imposing figure, dressed shabbily in an old pair of tracksuit bottoms and trainers, polo shirt and fleece.
- It took Emily at least twenty minutes to coax Callie from the bathroom floor, and even longer to get her dressed in a long-sleeve shirt and pajama bottoms.
- Do you think there's any correlation between its rise in popularity and its participants wearing bikini bottoms and sports bras?
- It was a black bikini halter with matching bottoms, a pair of swim shorts that had floral Hawaii prints on the side and a red shirt that had the sleeves ripped off with buttons undone.
- I cut strips from the bottom of the sarong and sliced slits in the waist of the bikini bottom.
- She had changed from her mini skirt into pajama bottoms and a tight-fitting t-shirt that had an unprintable logo on it.
- I'm sitting in my dressing gown and tracksuit bottoms, having spent the whole day in bed.
- 1.8
another term for bottomland Example sentencesExamples - Beesley explains that the frantic mining had huge impacts on rivers and valley bottoms.
- It is primarily restricted to flat or sloping grasslands, often along valley bottoms or areas adjacent to vernal pools.
- 1.9 The keel or hull of a ship.
龙骨，船体 Synonyms base, bottom side, underside - 1.10archaic A ship, especially considered as a unit of transport capacity.
〈古〉船（尤指货船）
2British A person's buttocks. he climbs the side of the gorge, scratching his bottom unselfconsciously Example sentencesExamples - I'm totally sick of all these ads for baby products that have babies' bottoms hanging out all over the place.
- The next thing she knew, Effie was sitting on her bottom in the snow and the Indian was standing over her, holding her gun.
- Many of them had a young baby girl smiling while sitting on her bottom in the tall grass or while teetering across a bridge or on a sidewalk.
- Sensors can be fitted to various parts of the operator's anatomy - for example, to the elbows to check interior space, or to bottoms for sensing seating positions.
- Dusk extended his right leg forward and Shi rested her bottom on his leg.
- She sat in a very undignified position, with only the dusty ground on which to rest her bottom which condemned her to exceptional discomfort.
- As Vernon explains, the slow, rhythmic grinding, bumping and shaking is great for toning bottoms, abdominal muscles, thighs, backs and arms.
- She shook her head and sat down on her bottom, hair falling over her face.
- ‘My bottom was flat from sitting in planes in November and December,’ said Woods.
- The next step is administration of rabies immunoglobulin, with half of it directly into the wound and the rest into your waiting bottom!
- Theorton removed his bottom from his chair and walked around his old friend.
- I will also require a velveteen cushion on which to rest my boil-covered bottom.
- At the very end of this long table was a rather large chair edged with more gold upon which the king himself sat his royal bottom.
- But, more to the point, do we really want the old blokes of the future to have cheeks as soft as babies' bottoms; to have foreheads as smooth as velvet and, overall, to appear as rugged as a sand dune?
- The service was also superb, with the Royal Cliff's noiseless way of slipping a chair under the waiting bottom almost a trademark.
- At birth the newborn emerges into a world suddenly filled with sensations, including possibly a slap on the bottom.
- What I'm wondering is why monkeys would pay to see monkey bottoms when those bottoms are hanging out naked to see all the time.
Synonyms rear, rump, rear end, backside, seat 3Physics
One of six flavors of quark. 底夸克 Example sentencesExamples - B-mesons are similar to neutral kaons but consist of an anti-down quark and a heavy bottom quark.
- Each quark can be chosen from any of six flavours: up, down, strange, charm, bottom and top.
4archaic Stamina or strength of character, especially of a horse. 〈古〉（尤指马的）持久力，耐力 5vulgar slang A man who takes the passive role in anal intercourse with another man. 6Baseball
The second half of an inning. 页面底部。 Example sentencesExamples - Anything can happen in baseball, but only after there are two out in the bottom of the ninth inning.
- With the score tied in the bottom of the ninth inning and a runner on second base, the batter hits a ball over the right-field fence.
- Imagine you're a baseball pitcher and you're walking back out onto the mound to pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning.
- Say a reliever comes in to pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs and the tying run on base.
- Taiwan scored its first run in the bottom of the second inning with two consecutive hits.
adjectiveˈbädəmˈbɑdəm 1In the lowest position. 最底层的，最下的 the books on the bottom shelf 底层架子上的书。 Example sentencesExamples - A sparkling shiny piece of silver metal caught her eye from the bottom shelf of the back wall of the closet.
- On the bottom shelf was the cardboard carton containing the incense sticks.
- The children's books have occupied the bottom shelves where children can easily access them.
- So we decided we'd dig the whole lot out and put the bottom storey underground.
- An unopened toothbrush and tube of toothpaste lay in the bottom shelf.
- On the bottom layer, start with a very thin layer of jam.
- Beside the bottom bunk was a small table with two shelves above it.
- Then, I sit up, with my hands pressed to a bottom board of the shelf, pushing myself upwards.
- He sat down on the bottom step to the basement and she perched next to him.
- Cathy knelt in front of the bookcases, pulling things from the bottom shelves.
- The base of the camera struck me and cut my bottom lip.
- Danielle cut the top layer of Holly's hair shorter than the bottom layer, so the ends of Holly's hair can now be flipped out.
- One of the best magazines we discovered was not at Frieze but tucked away on the bottom shelf of the bookshop at Tate Modern.
- She goes to the fridge and from a cask on the bottom shelf pours me a glass.
- But don't forget the fine print at the bottom right of the poster.
- I think one of my bottom teeth is going to fall out soon.
- She grabbed the railing for support and lowered herself on the bottom step.
- So I've just put everything on the bottom shelf in the cupboard.
- Defrost it in the fridge in a large bowl on the bottom shelf, so the juices don't drip onto anything else.
- He removes the bottom bin, and finds the reservoir is frozen solid.
Synonyms lowest, last, bottommost, undermost, ground - 1.1 In the lowest or last position in a competition or ranking.
底层；最低下的部分 households in the bottom income bracket Example sentencesExamples - As of 2000, this top layer had an income 10 times that of the bottom fifth of families.
- In some cases, pupils who had originally been in the bottom quarter of the class produced work that put them in the middle half of the class.
- Lots of students who have achieved greatness were in the bottom half of their class.
- Caregivers are positioned at the bottom reaches of the health-care system.
- Living wage advocates are stepping up a campaign to ensure the benefits of prosperity extend to those at the bottom end of the income scale.
- You might want to temporarily cut rates for the bottom two income brackets.
- Coming in with 18 points, Jim had no competitors for the bottom spot.
- Canada is increasingly divided between the few who have much and a growing bottom class that has little.
- As a first-grader at another school, she read at the bottom level of her class.
- The bottom half of the income distribution is unlikely to save for retirement in illiquid accounts on a voluntary basis.
- All 12 teams make the play-offs with the bottom eight competing in the best of three preliminary round.
- Tutoring beyond first grade was made on the basis of performance in the bottom third of class level scores.
- The poor choice of song even caused her a position in the bottom 3.
- The top two from each pool will progress to the cup competition, while the bottom two will get a second bite of the cherry in the plate.
- The share for middle and bottom income earners suffered declines of about 5 percent.
- It goes to the 70 percent of the taxpayers who are in the bottom brackets.
- But the region lagged behind in wages, with most local government areas in the bottom third for average weekly incomes.
verbˈbädəmˈbɑdəm [no object](of a performance or situation) reach the lowest point before stabilizing or improving. （成绩，局势）到达最低点后趋于平衡；走出低谷 interest rates have bottomed out Example sentencesExamples - People's lives have improved, unemployment is bottoming out at about 4%, and there are no grievances severe enough to make people resort to arms.
- We are currently going through the worst industry recession I have ever known, but there are signs that it's bottoming out.
- One author predicted that the Dow is likely to fall as much as ninety-eight percent in early 2000s, and the market will probably not bottom out until it reaches a level of ninety-five.
- Newsprint prices have risen steadily since bottoming out at $435 per metric ton in 2002.
- But circulation plummeted in the Boston years, bottoming out at 25,000, with subscribers receiving fundraising pleas as often as renewal notices.
- After bottoming out three years ago, unemployment now stands at 6.4 percent, and the economic recovery is sluggish.
- The consensus was that things were bottoming out, but in recent months the picture has got even grimmer.
- Higher tuition fees means an increase in international student enrolment, an increase in the number of rich Canadians at universities and colleges, and the bottoming out in attendance of poor Canadians.
- My clubhead has bottomed out well before it has reached the tee and will be on the way back up by the time it strikes the ball.
- There is only so much the construction industry can achieve before it bottoms out.
- We used to be able to make the budget on half a year's worth (of decent attendance), but now the lack of interest seems to be the trend for baseball in Canada and I hope that it bottoms out soon.
- In the afternoon, the tide bottomed out which pushed the bowl out of reach of any paddle surfer.
- ‘While the vacancy rate in Dublin is still relatively high in a European context, there is evidence that the situation is now bottoming out,’ Hunt said.
- Until the equity markets bottom out and values stabilise, it is unlikely that the overhang of office space will be fully absorbed.
- On the positive side, there is now emerging consensus in the trade that the price crash is close to bottoming out.
- Under age cattle are beginning to become scarce and price is now bottoming out.
- After more than a decade firmly ensconced among golf's elite, the seven-time European No.1 bottomed out at No.83 in the world.
- Although the situation has improved since bottoming out in 1998, the number of people facing the threat of poverty is from 30 percent to 60 percent of the population.
- ‘When I say that markets have bottomed out, I'm not implying that a rally is likely to follow in the months ahead,’ he said.
- Office markets across Europe will begin to bottom out this year, and the improving economic climate will begin to have a greater impact on offices in the middle of next year, Axford predicted.
PhrasesBasically; fundamentally. 基本上，本质上 at bottom, science is exploration 本质上，科学就是探险。 Example sentencesExamples - But one thing that has disturbed me has been the number of people who, at bottom, don't seem to really believe in grace or mercy.
- At bottom, Greenberg's theology rests on the conviction that the Holocaust was a revelatory event.
- We rest, at bottom, on the inherent dignity of the individual.
- Once the novel language is stripped away, it is apparent that most of these supposed new challenges are, at bottom, techniques.
- This is because corruption is not at bottom simply a matter of law; rather it is fundamentally a matter of morality.
- Reading it, one might be tempted to think that at bottom García Márquez has remained as unpolitical as when he started out.
- Likewise, we want Harry Angel to have, at bottom, a pure heart.
- After all, Manning states, agriculture is culture, and, at bottom, is about the integrity of individual lives.
- One need not trivialize the fears of religious parents to recognize that this is at bottom a complaint against democracy itself.
- Her approach on economic issues is, at bottom, quite similar.
Synonyms fundamentally, primarily, principally, chiefly, essentially, elementally, firstly, predominantly
the bottom falls (or drops) out Collapse or failure occurs. the bottom fell out of the market for classic cars 高级轿车市场暴跌。 Example sentencesExamples - I guess the bottom drops out when her perfect life doesn't come out exactly like she wants it.
- Consumer confidence edged lower for the last three months, but the level of confidence remains strong and that's probably going to continue, unless the bottom falls out of the labor market.
- Otherwise you become overwhelmed and the bottom drops out.
- Without that the bottom falls out of our value system and invites nihilism.
- That doesn't much prepare you for when the bottom drops out, though, and it does with a mighty yawn.
- That's because historically, the bottom falls out of the new car market after it has had two record sales years.
- Then, predictably, the bottom drops out of Jamal's career.
- You settle into a routine, and you go along like that for years, but then, suddenly, the bottom drops out from under you?
- It's not like he signs it and the bottom falls out of the market.
- In the modern professionalized situation, the bottom drops out of small-group reciprocal altruism.
informal A call to finish one's drink. Example sentencesExamples - After largely ignoring the typed speech, he came to the end of his comments by saying: ‘I am declaring this plant officially open, so it's bottoms up!’
- From the looks of you, it seems to me that you might be a big drinker. Bottoms up?
Synonyms here's to you, good health, your health, here's health, skol, good luck
Starting at the lower end or beginning of a hierarchy or process and proceeding to the top or end. 从最底层做起；从头学起 we began to study history from the bottom up 我们从头学历史。 Example sentencesExamples - They are wrong in assuming either approach could offer a stable alternative to the long process of building democracy from the bottom up.
- The historical process has unfolded from the bottom up.
- Repeat this process, working from the bottom up, until all the damaged boards are removed.
- Second, adaptation processes that are built from the bottom up and are based on social capital can alter the perceptions of climate change from a global to a local problem.
- ‘Some of the ideas put forward by the original consultants were ridiculous, and they tried to do it from the top down rather than from the bottom up and take into account the views of people on the ground,’ he said.
- But, in a process described as working from the bottom up, three codes were drawn up by the relevant industries.
- You can tell he's a beginner because he canvasses council flats from the bottom up.
- Partnership encourages good communication from the bottom up so all are involved in the process.
- Change needs to come from the bottom up and it's only real people that make a difference.
- Many of the volumes draw inspiration from the so-called subaltern approach, which generally focuses on history from the bottom up.
Find an explanation for (a mystery) 探明…的真相；弄清…的起因；寻到…的根子 he hopes to get to the bottom of the scam 她在楼梯底下停了片刻。 Example sentencesExamples - I'm going to try to understand the various important issues, and try to get to the bottom of what's true and what's not.
- Unfortunately whether or not John McLaurin got to the bottom of the mystery of Volusia County is something the memos cannot tell us.
- Like Larry Tate in Bewitched, which ran on ABC at the same time, the senior man in I Dream Of Jeannie never quite got to the bottom of all the mysteries surrounding his underling.
- Anyway, with the hopes of getting to the bottom of the house buzzing mystery, I typed up a letter to the residents of the building and dropped it in their mail slot.
- The most important thing that the family did ask was to ensure that we got to the bottom of what exactly happened at the plant.
- We're going to do a real investigation here, spend some substantial, significant time with him getting to the bottom of what happened and how he escaped.
- I decided to do my own mini-analysis to get to the bottom of the hotel ranking mystery.
- Two days later, investigators were still trying to get to the bottom of what actually sparked the blaze.
- In all the time that he was here I never really felt that I got to the bottom of what made him tick.
- They're not quite able to do all these things, but you can be sure that Tom gets to the bottom of the Claire mystery.
Synonyms origin, cause, root, source, starting point, core, centre, heart, kernel, base, basis, foundation
informal Stake everything. you can bet your bottom dollar it'll end in tears 可以确信，这定会以眼泪收场。 Example sentencesExamples - So when it comes to the crunch next weekend, you can bet your bottom dollar that they'll deliver the goods… and that they'll do it in style.
- The report said nothing that these guys didn't already know, and you can bet your bottom dollar that this audit report will not be the end of the matter.
- Maybe there won't be the obligatory made-for-TV movies in the next few months but you can bet your bottom dollar that some ‘documentary’ directors will be banging on his front door.
- But you can bet your bottom dollar that the guy who owns this personal site is going to get a high bandwidth bill this month.
- If this is perceived by some people as a success in England, then you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be introduced in Scotland soon enough as well.
- And on top of that you can bet your bottom dollar that we won't be rushing to get your car ready after this outburst.
- Having said that, you can bet your bottom dollar that I'll be back.
- Because however worthy the cause, you can bet your bottom dollar that the person sporting it is feeling worthier - it's akin to giving yourself a very public pat on the back.
- He's leaving some time next year and he will be replaced by a board which you can bet your bottom dollar will be more amenable to the government.
- I may work my new ritual alone, physically, but you can bet your bottom dollar that I've talked that ritual over with my fellow travelers, and their insights and energies are with me when I work it.
OriginOld English botm, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bodem ‘bottom, ground’ and German Boden ‘ground, earth’. |