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 belly-up 添加此单词到默认生词本
['beli'ʌp]
adj.
失败的,破产的, 死的



    belly-up
    [ adj ]
    financially ruined
    <adj.all>
    a bankrupt companythe company went belly-up


    belly up \bel"ly up`\, belly-up \bel"ly-up`\, a. [from analogy
    to the position of a floating dead fish.]
    defunct; bankrupt; -- used mostly of commercial
    organizations; often used in the phrase

    {go belly-up}, i. e. to go bankrupt.
    [PJC]

    1. France called out the army Saturday to help clean up about 80 tons of dead fish floating belly-up in the Seine, apparent victims of river pollution following severe rainstorms.
    2. A T-shirt featuring a belly-up bull is being sold in honor of the Oct. 19. stock market crash by No More Bull Partners, Greenwich, Conn.
    3. Haas Securities went belly-up after the crash because it no longer had the capital to stay in business.
    4. Investors have been rewarded for this risk; hence the high risk/return score. Martin Currie International's calamity was to have been exposed to Latin America when the Bolsa turned belly-up, and its 1991 record suffers as a result.
    5. The front page banner headline said: "Clements says FSLIC will go 'belly-up.'"
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