| 单词 | boom and bust | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasboom and (or) bust  b.   boom and (or) bust: a period of great prosperity followed by a severe depression. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > 			[noun]		 > a rise in prosperity > followed by adversity or setback boom and (or) bust1943 1943    H. S. Canby Walt Whitman iii. 18  				The building trade, as usual, suffered from boom-and-bust. 1947    D. Riesman in  Yale Law Jrnl. Dec. 194  				The luxury market would be..entitled..to its privilege of boom and bust. 1962    Times Lit. Suppl. 13 July 502/1  				Cataclysmic alternatives—destruction or utopia, boom or bust. < as lemmas | 
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