单词超市第117期 nose dive

今天我们要学的词组是nose dive。 Nose是鼻子， dive是跳水或是俯冲， nosedive指飞机垂直俯冲，"The plane nosedived." Nose dive也指价格等猛跌，迅速下降。比如雅虎公司宣布季度盈利下跌60%， 美国媒体报道说， "Yahoo's profit takes a nose dive."

美国2006年的失业率大幅度下降，"The unemployment rate in the United States took a nose dive in 2006." 一个人的工作和事业也可能出现nose dive， "His career took a nose dive after he was fired by the company." 他被公司解雇以后，事业一落千丈。今天我们学习的词组是nose dive...