English Dictionary

take a dive

動詞

慣用表現

To decline rapidly. / (idiomatic, boxing) To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally. / (idiomatic) To lose or fail intentionally.

日本語の意味

急激に価値や調子が下がる／衰退する / （ボクシングの表現）故意に失神を演じ、試合に意図的に負ける / 故意に負ける、または失敗する（イディオム表現）

After the scandal, the company's stock prices began to take a dive.

スキャンダルの後、その会社の株価は急落し始めた。

意味（1）

To decline rapidly.

Other broad market gauges took even steeper dives, with the Standard & Poor's 500, which includes financial stocks, falling 9.93%.

意味（2）

(idiomatic, boxing) To feign a knockout in order to lose intentionally.

I decided there could be a nice bit of irony in a situation where a boxer, with a crown his for the taking, deliberately takes a dive to get revenge on the man he hates, who is betting everything on the boxer's victory.

意味（3）

(idiomatic) To lose or fail intentionally.

takes a dive （ present singular third-person ）

taking a dive （ participle present ）

took a dive （ past ）

taken a dive （ participle past ）