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

• 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。
• Increasingly, China is undercutting Russian sales efforts with similar weapons containing lots of stolen Russian technology.
  日益，中国利用包含诸多窃取自俄罗斯的技术的类似武器侵蚀俄罗斯外销努力。
• 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。
• Vietnamese press claim chicken, sturgeon, fruit and vegetables from China have been undercutting local market prices. While illegal out-of-date produce is creating a black market in China.
  越南声称来自中国的鸡肉、鲟鱼和果蔬降低了当地产品的市场价位，而他们却将严重过期的不法产品运至中国，甚至还形成了黑市。
• 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”。
• Each company could capture the entire market by undercutting by a penny, and the process of undercutting would only stop when prices fell to the cost of production.
  每家公司都可以以比竞争对手低一便士的价格来占领整个市场，这种抢生意的定价过程只有在价格降至生产成本的时候才会停止。
• I'm certain that our rival companies are undercutting by keeping their prices so low.
  我敢肯定竞争公司把价格定得这么低是在挖我们的墙角。
• But deep-rooted problems are undercutting its status.
  但一些根深蒂固的问题正在削弱美元的这一地位。
• 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。
• 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。