uptick

noun

1. 小幅增加
   a small increase

1. The uptick in demand comes as housing fundamentals appear to be recovering.
   需求增长的同时，房地产市场的基本面似乎也在复苏。
2. But Balzer thinks the decline bottomed in 2012, so expect an uptick in restaurant dining in 2013.
   不过巴尔泽认为，2012年将是这一轮下降的底部，2013年，外出就餐的次数预期会有一个反弹。
3. A normal uptick in home buying during the spring played a role, but property agents also reported they were busier than usual.
   春季购房量的正常上扬起到了一定作用，但房产中介也报告称，他们比平常更忙了。
4. But any uptick at all in their share prices would be a sign that investors were at least prepared to reconsider their gloomy outlook.
   但假如它们的股价出现哪怕一点点上扬，将表明投资者至少已准备好重新考虑自己的悲观展望。
5. Nominal retail sales were stronger, and there was an uptick in the official manufacturing Purchasing Managers 'Index.
   名义零售额增幅扩大，此外官方制造业采购经理人指数（PMI）也上升。
6. Ms. Preston has seen the uptick in anxiety among her student clients.
   普雷斯顿发现，在她的学生客户中，焦虑症正在增加。
7. There has also been an attendant uptick in popularity for the shoe brands that your grandmother and great-grandmother loved.
   此外，一些祖母辈和曾祖母辈喜欢的鞋履品牌也一直呈现流行度上升的势头。
8. Residential property is a big mess for the Chinese government and it's not going away. Last month, prices on new homes leapt 7.4% in June 2012 the biggest uptick since last December.
   居民住宅是中国的一个烂摊子，并且不会立刻消失。上个月，房价上涨了7.4%，这是过去十二个月以来最大上扬。
9. But as of this week, that figure saw a mere 1% uptick.
   但是截至本周，这一数字仅增加了1%。
10. Still, Mr. Barr recalls that the uptick in the United States took a while to occur.
    然而，巴尔回忆称，美国的回升花了一段时间。
11. Other related speed bumps in Hong Kong include bans on naked short selling, in which investors short shares they have not borrowed, and the uptick rule that prevents shorting of stocks whose prices are already falling.
    香港采取的其它限速措施包括禁止裸卖空（指投资者在没有借入股票的情况下卖空）以及提价交易规则（防止投资者卖空股价已在下跌的股票）。
12. The downgrade was blunted by reduced imports, an uptick in exports and an infusion of government spending.
    进口下降、出口增加以及政府资金的注入抵消了部分下调。
13. Things could hardly get worse: despite an uptick in the fourth quarter, 2012 was the worst year in terms of global initial public offerings since the depths of the crisis.
    市况再差不到哪儿去了：尽管第四季度略微回暖，2012年仍是自金融危机最严重时期以来全球首次公开发行（IPO）市场表现最糟糕的一年。
14. But domestic demand has stayed robust, as reflected in strong retail sales and a surprising uptick in fixed investment growth.
    但是国内需求仍保持旺盛，这反映在强劲的零售增长和令人意外的固定资产投资增长上。
15. Conservative histrionics aside, women who have abortions aren't the ones causing the uptick in childlessness.
    他们可能有些夸张了，女性可以自由堕胎并不是导致她们不要孩子的原因。
16. Consumer confidence in the US remains very low ( despite a modest surprising uptick in July).
    美国的消费者信心仍然很低（尽管7月份出现小幅意外反弹）。
17. In the UK, with the economy deteriorating and the uptick in claimant count, we expect Unemployment to pick up the pace over the last few months.
    在英国，随着经济的恶化，索赔计数的上升，我们预计失业者在过去几个月就已经采取行动。
18. The World Bank even detects "hints of an uptick" in early data for June.
    世界银行甚至在六月初期的数据中找到上升的迹象。
19. Since the Asian financial crisis, Hong Kong has also had an "uptick rule", which requires that a short sale cannot be made on the local stock exchange below the best current asking price.
    自亚洲金融危机以来，香港还实施了“提价交易规则”，禁止在低于当前最高叫价的情况下在香港交易所卖空股票。
20. In the mild recession of 2000-01, there was also an uptick of productivity, but the economy lost jobs for two years after the recession formally ended, in a jobless recovery.
    在2000到2001年的温和衰退期间，生产率也出现了增长，但在衰退正式结束后的两年，美国的失业率仍在增长，陷入了无就业的复苏。
21. If next quarter's forecast doesn't include an uptick in business?
    如果你对下个季度的预测时没有将一个业务上升纳入其中？
22. That trend is similar to the uptick in lipstick sales during the2001 recession and other colorful cosmetics like nail polish in this one.
    自2001年的经济衰退以来，像口红和指甲油这种颜色选择繁多的产品销售便有节节攀升的趋势。
23. They see the uptick in certain headline inflation rates as one-off adjustments to the price level, reflecting commodity price rises or import price rises rather than a self-reinforcing process of price rises feeding household and company inflation perceptions.
    他们认为一些整体通胀数据的上扬是对价格水平的一次性调整，反映了大宗商品价格的上涨，或进口价格的上升，而不是一个会促成居民家庭和企业通胀感知的自我强化的价格上升过程。
24. The feeding through of food and energy costs to core prices did produce an uptick this past month.
    在刚过去的这个月，食品和能源成本向核心物价的传导确实造成了核心CPI的上升。
25. Some analysts had been expecting a modest uptick, given that there were fewer working days in February last year because of holidays.
    一些分析师曾预计中国2月份出口将出现小幅上升，因为去年同期由于春节假期而少了几个工作日。
26. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development composite leading indicator shows at least a slight uptick.
    经济合作与发展组织（OECD）的综合领先指标显示，经济至少已出现轻微的好转。
27. The uptick in infrastructure investment in mid-2013 was preceded by a 31 per cent rise in total social financing in the first six months of that year.
    2013年年中基建投资上扬之前，社会融资总量在该年前六个月增长31%。
28. And if fewer abandon their carts before paying, retailers will see an uptick in sales.
    另外，如果在付款之前放弃手推车的人越来越少，零售商将会发现销售额节节攀升。

noun

1. a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction