come-down

英 [kʌm daʊn]

美 [kʌm daʊn]

n.  落败，屈辱，倒霉

复数：come-downs　

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双语例句

• Professionally it is considered a come-down to work in portrait classes.
  在人像班上当画师被认为是事业上的一种落泊。
• It is the steady come-down of general price indices.
  它是指一般物价水平普遍地、持续地下降。
• Having to work as a clerk is a bit of a come-down after running his own business.
  他原来经营自己的买卖，现在不得已去当小职员，可谓家道中落了。
• She used to have servants: now she finds it a come-down to have to do the work herself.
  她过去雇有佣人，现在她得自己干活，觉得很委屈。