trade down

英 [treɪd daʊn]

美 [treɪd daʊn]

变卖（旧物）换进同类中较廉价的东西

法律

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 变卖(旧物)换进同类中较廉价的东西
  If someonetrades down, they sell something such as their car or house and buy a less expensive one.
  1. They are selling their five-bedroom house and trading down to a two-bedroom cottage.
     他们要把 5 居室的房子卖掉，换一所较便宜的 2 居室小屋。

双语例句

• It means that properly negotiated trade agreements bring down foreign barriers and promote exports to a much greater extent than they reduce American barriers and benefit imports.
  它意味着，经过恰当谈判的贸易协定会削弱美国壁垒并促进进口，但这远不及消除外国壁垒并促进出口的益处。
• The dollar index, a measure of the currency relative to its major trade partners, was down 0.7 per cent.
  美元指数（衡量美元对美国主要贸易伙伴国货币汇率变化程度的指标）下降了0.7%。
• But despite a deadline of Wednesday for the trade down, ministers appear to be in no hurry to comply.
  但是，尽管政府规定必须在周三之前进行更话，然而，部长们似乎并不急着遵守该新的规定。
• We suggested they enter a short trade when it breaks down.
  我们建议会员在该股下跌时做空。
• The UN's wildlife trade organisation has turned down Tanzania's and Zambia's requests to sell ivory, amid concern about elephant poaching.
  考虑到非法狩猎大象的问题，联合国野生动物贸易公约组织拒绝了坦桑尼亚和赞比亚出售象牙的请求。
• Construction and relative service is one of the important categories in international service trade set down by WTO.
  建筑及有关工程服务是WTO规定的国际服务贸易重要类别。
• What does seem plain, however, is that the carry trade tends to break down when markets become more turbulent.
  无论如何，有一个事实相当明显，就是息差交易在市场变动剧烈时很容易崩溃。
• The kid-he was eighteen, by the way, and not long out of trade school-broke down and spilled his guts.
  那个小伙子顺便说一句，只有十八岁，刚从职业学校毕业不久受不住了，把一切都交代了出来。
• The great many of deficits worsen the situation of the domestic and foreign trade and cut down the demands to the products and services of GuangXi seriously.
  再如巨大对内贸逆差恶化了内外贸易状况，严重降低了对广西产品和服务的总需求。
• After a10-year bender of gaudy dreams and Godless consumerism, Americans are starting to trade down.
  经过十年绚丽的梦，罪恶的消费闹腾一场之后美国人正开始减少消费。