下滑

As an evening newspaper, the Post had been losing readers for decades.

几十年来，作为一份晚报，《辛辛那提邮报》的读者数量一直在下滑。

Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan vie with Japan for the swiftest downturn.

新加坡、韩国和台湾经济下滑的速度丝毫不比日本逊色。

Emerging economies are being hit hard by weakening exports and the collapse of private capital flows. The G20 summiteers cannot prevent this, but they can stave off a slump with zealous and co-ordinated action to prop up domestic demand and provide resources to cash-strapped emerging economies.

新兴经济体因为出口下滑和私有资本流动崩溃而备受挫折。G20峰会的领导人不能阻止这一切的发生，但是通过统一协调并且目标坚定的行动来提升内需和为缺乏现金的新兴经济体提供资源，他们还是可以缓解下挫的幅度。

There's no realistic prospect that the Fed can pull the economy out of its nose dive.

但是这样的手段最多只能稍微弥补危机所造成的损失，对于不断下滑的经济，美联储已是无力回天。

Then he appeared in three films that nobody want to see, and his career took a nose dive -- no producer wants him any more.

然后他出现在个没人看的电影里，他的事业下滑的很厉害，没有导演找他拍片了。

Asia's economies have posted the starkest declines, but the slide is evident from Latin America to Eastern Europe.

亚洲经济体出现了最为彻底的收缩，但从拉美到东欧普遍也出现了显著的下滑。

The financial crisis has triggered off sharp drop of ocean shipping trade, and decline of shipbuilding industry.

金融危机导致世界海运贸易大幅下挫，造船业开始下滑，据权威谘询机构克拉克松的统计，从2008年11月至 2009年5月，连续7个月全球新船订单量月均不足100万吨，5月甚至出现&零成交&。

The Commerce Department pointed out that in the last three months of 2008, the GDP has dropped at a yearly speed of 6.2%, which is the spikiest rate over the past 25 years.

商务部指出，2008年的最后三个月，国内生产总值以每年6.2%的速度下降，是25年来最急剧的下滑。

In Argentina, where sowings are sharply lower than last year, dry weather slowed crop development, but rains improved prospects in Australia. The wheat consumption forecast is increased by 4m. tons to 643m., with feed use expected to reach a 17-year high of 111m.

在种植面积同比大幅下滑的阿根廷，干燥天气延缓了小麦作物生长，但雨水充沛改善了澳大利亚小麦产量前景。2008/09年度全球小麦消费量预测数据上调400万吨至6.43亿吨，而全球饲用小麦消费量预计将达到1.11亿吨的17年来最高水平。

The proper key has serrations that raise the metal pieces to the correct height above the slot, allowing the bolt to slide.

正确的关键有锯齿的提高金属片上面的槽正确的高度，使螺栓下滑。

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。