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/ˈdaʊntɜːrn/ · /ˈdaʊntɜːn/
A period when business activity goes down and conditions get worse, after a time when things were growing.
低迷；不景氣
複數 downturns
核心畫面
Picture a line on a business chart that has been climbing, and then bends and heads down. A downturn is that bend and the stretch of bad time that follows it. The word carries the earlier good period inside it — you can only turn down from somewhere higher.
可以想成：財經圖表上一條原本往上爬的線，忽然轉折向下。downturn 指的就是那個轉折，以及接下來那一段不好過的日…更多收起
可以想成：財經圖表上一條原本往上爬的線，忽然轉折向下。downturn 指的就是那個轉折，以及接下來那一段不好過的日子。這個字裡面藏著前面那段好光景——要先有高處，才轉得下來。所以它不是單純的「差」，而是「本來不錯，現在往下走」。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
downturnnoun/ˈdaʊntɜːn/
- 1
A downward trend, or the beginnings of one.
- Near-synonym: decline
- The downturn in the economy made it harder to find jobs.
downturnverb/ˈdaʊntɜːn/
- 1
To turn downwards.
- 2
To decline.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。