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

• After Koizumi resigned, the pace of bilateral trade gradually slowed down.
  小泉下台后，双边贸易的增长速度在逐步放缓。
• Rising unemployment could also cause some consumers to trade down to lower-priced cigarettes and also any price increases cigarette makers could take on top of the tax increase, Hong said.
  洪说，不断增加的失业率可能导致一些消费者转向较低价格的卷烟，卷烟制造商可能在税收提高的基础上提高价格。
• Top spots are suffering as expense accounts dry up and customers trade down.
  随着报销单上金额的缩水和顾客们偏向低价选择，顶级饭店正陷入痛苦之中。
• 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。
• There are limits to the extent to which pensioners can borrow against the equity in their homes or trade down at a time when they need better not worse accommodation.
  当退休人员需要更好而非更糟糕的食宿条件时，他们抵押房产借贷或将其出售的能力受到限制。
• 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。
• They usually start the season with better goods and then trade down.
  他们通常在旺季开始时进较好的货，然后换低档货。
• 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。
• 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%。
• The elderly who find themselves asset rich but income poor will be under more pressure than ever to trade down or out of the housing market to finance their later years.
  资产多、但收人低的老年人发现置换成低价房或者出售自有住房以度有生之年的压力比以前更大了。