GO BUST、BUSTの意味、経済が破綻する、経済の急速な悪化

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2005.10.05(Review of 2004.07.08 edition)

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GO BUST / BUST   経済が破綻する/経済の急速な悪化

Explanation

  • To go bust is to fail financially, such as when a business becomes bankrupt.

    A bust is a period when the financial situation of an individual, organization, or country becomes rapidly worse.
  • go bust とは、企業が破産するなど、財政的に破綻するという意味です。

    bust とは個人・企業・国家の経済状態が急速に悪くなっている状況をさします。

examples

  1. (the president to his top executives)
    We've fallen into the red. If we don't turn this situation around, the whole company may go bust.
  2. After the financial bubble burst in the late nineties, many companies went bust.
  3. He made a bad investment and went bust in a week. He lost everything.
  4. The Depression was the great economic bust that began in 1929.
  5. We can be thankful that the bust has passed and that the economy is growing again.

英会話レッスンDon't worry. After today, there's nowhere else to go but up!