下滑

Losing equity is like falling into an ice cave - it's easy to slide in but hard to claw your way out because the edges are slippery.

亏损就像跌进一个冰窟——下滑是容易的，但很难再爬出来，因为冰窟的壁太光滑了。

Its products can not be realized in full blossom end result is a factor of concern decline.

在产品端其不能实现全面开花是导致关注下滑的一个因素。

Inclement weather is one thing, but the downturn is posing a greater challenge.

与恶劣的天气相比，经济下滑则给邮政业带来了更大的挑战。

The MSCI World Index of global share prices has fallen by almost 10% from its peak on January 14th.

全球股价的摩根士丹利世界指数自1月14日见顶后下滑近10%。

U.S. car and truck sales fell 18% industrywide in 2008, to 13.24 million units, according to Autodata .

依据《汽车数据》提供的数据，2008年，美国轿车和卡车全行业销量下降18%，达到1324万台，这是自1992年以来汽车销量最糟糕的一年，也是自1974年以来销量下滑最大的一年。

In August last year, industrywide sales declined 6.3% from a year earlier, according to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

中国汽车工业协会的数据显示，去年8月中国汽车全行业销量同比下滑了6.3%。

MAN wants to expand in China and other emerging markets after industrywide European heavy-truck sales slumped 45 percent in the first five months amid the economic slowdown.

MAN希望扩大在中国和其他新兴市场国家业务，而今年前五个月由于经济下滑，欧洲重型卡车销量下降了45%。

Mr. Zetsche reiterated that Daimler, the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, plans to maintain spending on research and development, even amid eroding sales industrywide, so that the company can be more competitive when the global economy improves.

蔡澈重申，尽管整个行业销量不断下滑，但戴姆勒仍计划维持研发开支，这样一旦全球经济好转，公司就能更具竞争性。戴姆勒是梅塞德斯-奔驰(Mercedes-Benz)汽车的生产商。

That is why its economy is growing, while Alistair Darling is still pleading ineffectually for UK banks to increase their lending and while UK investment in housing and transport is plunging by 30% and more.

这就是中国经济站在增长的原因，而此时英国财政大臣达林仍在徒劳地恳求英国银行增加借贷，同时英国房产和运输投资急速下滑了30%甚至更多。

How did he "escape" from an inexorably declining business into a completely new field?

他如何"逃离"那个无情地在下滑的行业进入一个全新的领域呢？

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。