下滑

"I feel that we have only got halfway through this in a sense that the financial market has had a real capitulation," he said.

"在金融市场出现一个真正的下滑的趋势时，从某种意义上来说我感觉我们只仅仅在它的半路上。"

Rather, the worry is of persistent price declines that characterise true deflation.

而真正所忧虑的是价格持续下滑，这是实际紧缩的特点。

Last week's chart champion, country star Kenny Chesney's "The Road and the Radio," fell two places to No. 3. In between, was the debut release from "American Idol" winner Carrie Underwood,"Some Hearts".

上周的榜上冠军是乡村歌手肯尼·切斯尼的专辑《路和收音机》，本周下滑两个榜位排在第三，本周第二名是"美国偶像"获得者卡丽·安德伍德的处女专辑《心》。

And car production are in a slump, but the rest is still chugging along.

国内建筑和汽车制造业经济正在下滑，但是其他行业正大步向前。

Recent data make clear the economy has pulled out of its steep dive and may even expand again soon.

近期数据清楚地显示，美国经济已经扭转急剧下滑的状态，甚至不久或许就将再次开始增长。

He's hit plenty of clutch shots in his career, but he's hobbling this season.

他在他的职业生涯中，投中了很多的关键球，但是这个赛季他的表现有所下滑。

Working are finding that they have less money in their coffers.

他们手里的钱变少了。许多经济学家说，疲软的美国房屋市场是造成经济下滑的主要原因。

Any comedown for H-P's PC sales would mark a major reversal for the business, which has been growing robustly for the past few years.

惠普个人电脑销售的任何下滑都将标志着业务的重大逆转，过去几年中，该业务一直在强劲增长。

This is the second consecutive quarter of decline.

这也是连续第二个季度下滑。

In the past year, the economy has contracted 2.3%.

在过去的一年，经济已经下滑了2.3%。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。