查询词典 decline

The second chapter describes Tess as a pure woman, arguing that it is Tess"s sense of duty to her family on the decline that leads her to become Alec"s sexual object and later it is her devoted love to Angel that makes her the murderess of Alec.

第二章论述苔丝的纯洁形象，认为是苔丝对其贫困家庭的高度责任感和牺牲精神导致她的沉沦，是她对丈夫忠诚的爱导致她最后杀死了亚力克。

Indeed, it may be the primary function of celebrities like Jackson to show us, in their early radiance, what we could dream of being — and in the murk of their decline, what we fear we could become.

实际上，这就是杰克逊这类名人展示给我们的主要作用，他们的早期辉煌，正是我们梦寐以求的——而在他们的衰败，正是我们害怕的东西。

The 12th century BC, after a couple of hundred years, the gradual decline of Mycenaean civilization.

公元前12世纪以后的一、二百年内，迈锡尼文明逐渐衰落。

However, during the French revolution and Napoleonic wars the game went into decline.

但是，在法国革命和拿破仑战争期间，这项运动却走向衰落。

The key is that it has been related to the nationalist thought of the national rise and decline.

关键是它已与国家兴亡的民族主义思想系在一起了。

Data show that in September the price of live pigs nationwide decline in more than 15%.

数据显示，9月份全国生猪在15％以上的价格下降。

It follows that over-exploitation is also the main cause of the decline in natural species of ocean fishery .

可见，过度开采也是海洋渔业自然生物种类减少的主要因素。

But even the NBER's more sophisticated approach is too simplistic in that it defines a recession as an absolute decline in economic activity.

但是即便是NBER有经验的方法也是非常的简单：它定义经济衰退就是经济活动的彻底下降。

The NBER does not define a recession as two consecutive quarters of decline in real gross domestic product, as is the rule of thumb in many countries.

将衰退界定于连续两个季度的实际国内生产总值下降，这在许多国家是共识。

"The committee determined that the decline in economic activity in 2008 met the standard for a recession," the NBER said in a statement.

"委员会确认，经济活动减少，在2008年达到了衰退的标准。"

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷