underperform

verb

1. 发挥不够；表现不理想
   to not be as successful as was expected

1. While the executives who received higher total paydays were likely to underperform going forward, they wrote, those who actually did receive lower pay packages were likely to achieve improved stock returns and performance.
   报告称，尽管总体薪酬更高的CEO的确有可能在以后的日子里表现不佳，不过那些接受较低薪水的CEO也有可能获得更高的股权收益和业绩。
2. And larger funds, had a tendency to outperform their index, or at least underperform less, than smaller funds.
   而且，大基金往往比小基金更有可能表现优于指数，或者即便弱于指数，落后幅度也较小。
3. Mark Moskowitz, an analyst at JPMorgan ( JPM) said last week he expects HP to continue to underperform its peers in revenue and earnings growth.
   摩根大通公司（JPMorgan）的分析师马克•莫斯科维兹前不久表示，他预计，惠普的营业额和收入增长会继续落后于竞争对手。
4. The problem illuminated by Fitch is that domestic Sears and Kmart stores have continued to underperform other retailers on top line growth and operating margins have also lagged.
   惠誉列出的问题是西尔斯和凯马特美国门店的增收增幅继续落后于其他零售商，营业利润率也滞后。
5. The problem is that women appear to underperform men by about 20 points in the GMAT.
   问题在于女性的GMAT成绩比男性低大约20分。
6. Equities would underperform while bond spreads would widen as markets price in higher volatility risk.
   股市将会表现不佳，同时随着市场反映更大的波动性风险，债券息差将会扩大。
7. They tend to outperform when the dollar is weakening ( as in the years leading up to 2008), and to underperform when the dollar grows stronger.
   当美元走软时，新兴市场股市往往会跑赢发达国家股市（比如2008年之前的那几年），而当美元走强时情况则相反。
8. Barclays also recommends buying China Eastern shares, while Macquarie has an underperform rating on the stock.
   巴克莱也推荐买入东航的股票，而麦格理则对东航股票给出了逊于大盘的评级。
9. By clicking the "compare to site average" icon and selecting a comparison metric, you can see which sources outperform and underperform the site average.
   通过点击“比较网站平均”图标，并选择一个比较指标，你可以看到它的来源和表现低于平均水平的网站。
10. These stocks have been regarded in the past as a geared play on global growth, and thus tended to underperform as the economy slowed.
    这些股票过去也被认为是全球增长齿轮上的一环，并且也倾向于随着经济畏缩而表现欠佳。
11. Credit Suisse upgraded the stock to "outperform" from "underperform" amid optimism the company will restore profits in money-losing businesses.
    瑞士信贷将该股“跑赢大市”从“低于”因乐观，该公司将恢复盈利，亏损企业。
12. Analysts argue that currencies could be moving into a new trading pattern, with the euro set to underperform when risk is on.
    分析师认为，外汇市场将出现一种新的交易模式，当投资者追逐风险时，欧元的表现将会弱于大盘。
13. Investors have seen Nokia underperform the market by about 30 per cent over the past year.
    投资者已注意到，过去一年里诺基亚股价的表现落后大盘约30%。
14. For example, men tend to overtrade their investment accounts, causing them to underperform women.
    例如，男性往往会对投资账户进行过度交易，导致他们的业绩不如女性。
15. Worries about the debt crisis have caused European shares to underperform Wall Street this year, making valuations look rather more attractive.
    对于债务危机的担忧使得今年的欧洲股票逊于华尔街，从而使其估价更具诱惑力。
16. It is no fault of the workers that the state has not funded the pensions properly, or that a banking crisis has caused the stockmarkets to underperform.
    伊州无法提供全部养老金，又或银行危机导致证券市场表现不佳，皆非工人之错。
17. As a result, the foregone conclusion is that US interest rates will rise and bonds will underperform significantly.
    因此，人们的定论是，美国利率将会上调，债券将明显走弱。
18. As the authors concede, academic research on businesses that appoint COOs tends to suggest that they underperform companies that do not.
    正如作者所承认的，对任命有首席运营官的企业进行的学术研究似乎表明，这些企业的表现还不如那些没有首席运营官的企业。
19. After tripling its balance sheet in two and-a-half years, the conventional wisdom is that the era of quantitative easing should now give way to the era of inflation. As a result, the foregone conclusion is that US interest rates will rise and bonds will underperform significantly.
    在美联储资产负债表于两年半内增长了两倍之后，传统智慧认为，定量宽松时代现在应该让位于通货膨胀时代。因此，人们的定论是，美国利率将会上调，债券将明显走弱。
20. In the interim, our economy will not have access to all of the credit it needs and may underperform, at great cost to our society.
    在过渡期间，我们的经济将无法获取所需的全部信贷并可能表现不佳，从而让我们的社会承担巨大的代价。
21. A shift in attitude toward Chinese companies sparked by allegations of accounting fraud, as well as a general pull-back from risk, has led the group to underperform other US initial public offerings sharply.
    许多中国企业受到会计欺诈指控，导致市场对中国企业的态度转变，加上市场避险情绪普遍增强，致使赴美首次公开发行的中国企业表现严重逊于在美上市的其它企业。
22. Asian high-yield bonds have started to underperform the wider market ( see chart) as investors take a more conservative stance.
    亚洲高收益债券的表现已开始逊于更广泛市场（见图表），因为投资者采取了更为保守的立场。
23. In some countries, major cities underperform the national average, but that seems less likely in China, given the coast-interior disparities.
    在某些国家，大城市的学校教育表现要低于全国平均水平，但在中国似乎不大可能如此，因为其沿海地区要比内陆地区发达。
24. Martin Johnson, an education trade unionist, points to Britain's "inequality between classes, which is among the largest in the wealthiest nations" as the main reason why its pupils underperform.
    一个教育工会成员，马丁-詹姆森，指出英国的“课程之间的不平等是所有富有国家中最大的”，这是它的学生表现不好的主要原因。
25. I said that no stock is likely to outperform the market or underperform the market.
    我对你们说没有股票，会有比市场表现的好，或者差的可能性。
26. It is cheaper to pay a fee of one-third of a per cent to a passive ETF than to invest in expensive actively-managed funds, many of which underperform the same indices anyway.
    投资被动型ETF只需支付0.3%左右的费用，比昂贵的主动型基金便宜&何况很多主动型基金的表现还比不上同样的指数。
27. Historically, the typical stock market investor has managed to underperform the market itself, unerringly buying high and selling low.
    历史地看，典型的股市投资者的业绩逊于市场平均表现，恰恰做到了高买低卖。
28. The trouble with emerging markets is that, so far, their stock markets have not decoupled and, in fact, have tended to underperform during periods of risk-aversion.
    新兴市场的麻烦在于，到目前为止，它们的股市尚未与发达国家股市脱钩，而且实际上往往在避险情绪主导市场时期表现得比发达国家股市更加糟糕。
29. The upshot is that covered call funds outperform stock market indices when the market is flat or falling, but underperform when shares are shooting upwards.
    其结果是，当股市持平或下跌时，备兑买入基金的表现会好于股市指数，但当股价一路上扬时，其表现则落后于股市。

verb

1. perform too rarely
   1. Her plays are underperformed, although they are very good

2. perform less well or with less success than expected
   1. John consistently underachieves, although he is very able
   2. My stocks underperformed last year

   Synonym:    underachieve