下滑

For example, a normal fault is one which the hanging wall moves directly down the dip relative to the footwall and a reverse fault is one which the hanging wall goes directly up relative to the footwall.

例如，上盘岩石相对于下盘岩石向断面倾向下滑的断层命名为正断层，逆断层的上盘岩石相对于下盘岩石沿断面向上直冲。

Next year on a substantial decline in exports to Europe is a foregone conclusion.

明年对欧洲的出口大幅下滑已成定局。

And can foreknow, this data still will continue to glide.

而且可以预见，这个数据还将继续下滑。

Since the start of the year, the South Korean won has shed about 8% of its value against the dollar; the Russian ruble and the Hungarian forint have weakened about 14% versus the greenback.

今年年初以来，韩圆兑美元已经贬值了大约8%。俄罗斯卢布和匈牙利福林兑美元下滑了14%左右。

Pitney Bowes, which makes franking machines, has set up self-service mailing kiosks in shops and office buildings and is sharing revenue with the United States Postal Service, which is facing dramatic declines in mail volume.

制作标记打印机的公司 Pitney Bowes 已经在商店和办公大楼设立了自助式邮递柜台，处于邮件业务大幅下滑窘境的美国邮政管理局也因此项举措受益。

Now that the free fall is over, all sense of urgency seems to have vanished.

既然经济的自由下滑结束了，那么所有的急迫感似乎也已经消失了。

Fact: Breathing during free fall is possible, contrary to the way people tend to think.

事实：烟期间下滑可能，相反的方式让人觉得。

The economy and stock market were in free fall.

当时，经济和股市都呈自由落体式下滑。

I think it means the rate of decline in the economy, which during late last year and the first quarter of this year was like a free-fall, is definitely slowing down.

我认为，这表示，经过去年年底和今年第一季度自由落体式的经济下滑后，现在经济衰退的速度绝对是放慢了。

This phrase refers to the economic index or indicator that says cosmetics sales rise in direct relation to free-falling finances.

这个词汇用来表示化妆品的销售量与经济下滑有直接的关系。

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。