下滑

We still expect Japan's upswing to resume in the first half of 2005 and support overweighting Japanese equities and the yen.

日本刚公布的经济成长率连续两季下滑，按理论而言，日本景气应算是过去十四年来的第三次衰退，但事实不然，日本景气并不那么恐怖，美国运通认为日本景气仍在上升的轨道上，所以建议在日本股和汇市再加码，虽然2004年整体日本经济成长为2.6%，但在下半年则度过一个浅碟的衰退，这个衰退有很大的原因是来自于日本在下半年遭受到台风的侵袭，使得消费支出减少，是气候的影响而非经济的实际改变。

American International Group Inc., its shares in free-fall, struggled Monday to pull off a tangled deal that involved placating state and federal regulators, convincing banks to give it a huge loan and staving off the credit-rating agencies that hold the giant insurer's fate in their hands.

股价直线下滑的美国国际集团(American International Group Inc。， AIG)周一极力想做成一桩错综复杂的交易，包括安抚政府监管机构，说服银行为它提供巨额贷款，并避开掌握这家保险巨头命运的信用评级机构。

Car sales in America and Europe are plummeting.

美国和欧洲的汽车销售正在下滑。

And that's all she'll ever be. She's plummeting in the polls.

这就是她的最高职位她的民调一路下滑

All over the world, asset prices are plummeting.

全球各地的资产价格急速下滑。

Of course, I can't help you if your performance plummets after the class drop date.

当然，如果在退选时间过后，你的成绩急剧下滑，我就无能为力。

For many Web sites, the discounts and price cuts are the only way to hold on to customers as online buying unexpectedly plummets.

对于网站来说，在网购量急剧下滑的情况下，降价和打折是他们吸引顾客的唯一途径。

But my analysis of USAir's business was both superficial and wrong. I was so beguiled by the company's long history of profitableoperations, and by the protection that ownership of a senior security seemingly offered me, that I overlooked the crucial point: USAir's revenues would increasingly feel the effects of an unregulated, fiercely-competitive market whereas its cost structurewas a holdover from the days when regulation protected profits. These costs, if left unchecked, portended disaster, however reassuring the airline's past record might be.

不过我对于美国航空业的分析研究实在是过于肤浅且错误百出，我被该公司过去历年来的获利能力所蒙骗，同时过分相信特别股可以提供给我们在债权上的保护，以致于忽略了最关键的一点︰那就是美国航空的营收受到毫无节制的激烈价格竞争而大幅下滑的同时，其成本结构却仍旧停留在从前管制时代的高档，这样的高成本结构若不能找到有效解决的办法，将成为灾难的前兆，不管以前航空业曾经享有多么辉煌的历史。

Consumer spending, the biggest driver of U.S. economic growth, declined 1% in October -- just the seventh time since records began in 1959 that spending has fallen 1% or more in a month. The October decline presages a more substantial drop ahead.

消费者支出是美国经济增长最大的推动力，10月份该数据下滑了1%，这是1959年开始有纪录以来单月消费者支出降幅第七次达到1%的情况。10月份的数据预示著未来还将有更明显的降幅。

Consumer spending, the biggest driver of U.S. economic growth, declined 1% in October -- just the seventh time since records began in 1959 that spending has fallen 1% or more in a month. The October decline presages a more substantial drop ahead.

消费者支出是美国经济增长最大的推动力，10月份该数据下滑了1%，这是1959年开始有纪录以来单月消费者支出降幅第七次达到1%的情况。10月份的数据预示着未来还将有更明显的降幅。

The labia have now been sutured together almost completely.The drains and the Foley catheter come out at the top.

此刻阴唇已经几乎完全的缝在一起了，排除多余淤血体液的管子和Foley导管从顶端冒出来。

To get the business done, I suggest we split the difference in price.

为了做成这笔生意，我建议我们在价格上大家各让一半。