undercutting

英 [ˌʌndəˈkʌtɪŋ]

美 [ˌʌndərˈkʌtɪŋ]

v.  削(价)竞争; 以低于(竞争对手)的价格做生意; 削弱; 使降低效力
undercut的现在分词

现在分词：undercutting　

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柯林斯词典

The form undercut is used in the present tense and is also the past tense and past participle. undercut 的过去式和过去分词与原形相同。


• VERB 压低(价格)；以低于…的价格销售
  If youundercutsomeone orundercuttheir prices, you sell a product more cheaply than they do.
  1. The firm will be able to undercut its competitors whilst still making a profit.
     该公司将得以把价格压得低于竞争对手而仍能盈利。
  2. ...promises to undercut air fares on some routes by 40 per cent...
     承诺将一些航线的票价降低40%
  3. Prices were undercut and profits collapsed.
     价格被压低后，利润暴跌。
• VERB 削弱；破坏
  If your attempts to achieve somethingare undercutby something, that thing prevents your attempts from being effective.
  1. The appeal in Miller's pictures of Indian women is undercut at times by what the artist writes about them...
     米勒画作中印第安妇女的魅力有时会被艺术家的文字描述削弱。
  2. Popular support would be undercut by political developments.
     民众的支持率将会随政治势态的发展而下降。

双语例句

• However, she says new entrants to the market are undercutting prices and cautions that the worst thing they could do is to win a mandate and not meet expectations.
  不过，她表示，市场的新进入者正在削减价格。她还警告称，对它们而言，最坏的事可能是赢得委托却实现不了预期。
• Undercutting thriving business models is exactly what technology companies should do.
  削弱欣欣向荣的商业模式正是技术公司应该做的。
• The derivatives trades could also giving shipping lines a useful benchmark for their salesforce to use, instead of simply undercutting other lines.
  衍生品交易也可能给班轮航运公司的销售团队一个有用的基准，而不再简单地提供低于其它公司的报价。
• At one project, sales manager Susan Yang says her bosses are considering 'stealth price cuts' rebates, of maybe 30% that would keep the development competitive without undercutting its high-end image.
  一个住宅项目的销售经理SusanYang说，她的老板正打算隐性降价，折扣幅度可能达到30%，这样就可以在不破坏楼盘高端形象的同时保持竞争力。
• By repeatedly undercutting his price, his competitions soon had him on the ropes.
  竞争者们一再削价与他抢生意，很快就逼得他走投无路了。
• Most other member governments of the IMF, particularly the emerging markets, find themselves somewhere between the two – concerned about Chinese currency misalignment undercutting their manufacturers but also worried that investors with cheap borrowed dollars are driving their currencies higher in the search for yield.
  IMF的其它大多数成员国，尤其是新兴市场，发现自己两头为难&既担心人民币汇率失调冲击本国制造商，又担心廉价借入美元的投资者为了寻求收益率而推高本币汇率。
• China engineered a merger in its two state-owned rail companies late last year to prevent them from undercutting each other in international tenders.
  去年底，中国曾撮合两大国有铁路企业合并，以阻止它们在国际招标活动中彼此削弱。
• This could undermine the "quality of primetime programming" by undercutting the advertising revenues that support it.
  这样做可能减少广告收入，进而损害该收入支持的“黄金时段节目的质量”。
• The weld shall be free of any lack of fusion, undercutting, cracks and other defects which could impair the worability or use of the product in question as specified by the purchaser.
  焊缝不能有未熔合，咬边，裂纹和其它影响产品工作和使用的缺陷。这些都已经经过采购人员的一再强调。
• As a result, the Japanese export machine boomed, undercutting American industry; and Japanese investors gobbled up American debt, keeping US Treasury yields artificially low.
  其结果是，日本出口行业机器轰鸣，以更低的价格与美国工业进行竞争；日本投资者大笔购入美国债务，人为压低了美国国债的收益率。