bring up at the foot meaning in Chinese

给了最低分

In turn he took his place in the reading class and made a botch of it ; then in the geography class and turned lakes into mountains , mountains into rivers , and rivers into continents , till chaos was come again ; then in the spelling class , and got " turned down , " by a succession of mere baby words , till he brought up at the foot and yielded up the pewter medal which he had worn with ostentation for months
结果朗读时，他读得别别扭扭而在地理课上，他把湖泊当成山脉，一切都被他“恢复”到了原始混沌状态上拼写课时，一连串最简单的字弄得他“翻了船” ，结果成绩在全班垫了底，他只好把戴在身上风光了好几个月的那枚奖章退给了老师。