下滑

America's foreign oil bill fell 5.7 percent to $37.7 billion in February, marking the first monthly decline in a

月份美国的外国石油票据下降了5.7%，至377 亿美元，标志着一年以来第一次月度下滑，即使2月

And with so swift a decline, speed is of the essence, not least because America has far fewer "automatic stabilisers" than other rich countries with which to cushion a recession.

因为经济下滑的速度很快，经济投资的速度是极其重要的。

Property prices in the metropolis have fallen by 41% from their peak and show little sign of stabilising.

该市房地产价格与巅峰时期相比下跌了41%，而且毫无停止下滑的势头。

However, many economists agree with NIESR that recent rises could prove to be a false dawn, and predict further falls next year.

然而，很多经济学家认同国家经济及社会研究院的看法，近期的经济增长将会导致一个大下滑，而且预计明年将会近一步恶化。

A false dawn, and predict further falls next year.

家经济及社会研究院的看法，近期的经济增长将会导致一个大下滑，而且预计明年将会近一步恶

In fact, some of the country's most highly compensated CEOs over the past decade have presided over huge drops in earnings, losses in shareholder value, massive layoffs, and the underfunding of their workers' pension funds.

实际上，在过去十年以来，是一些回报率最高的管理阶层导演了利润的极度下滑，股东的财富损失，大规模下岗和对他们公司的工人养老基金的投资不足。

Bank category of listed companies in the global financial shares and weaker loan interest rates have come down the double impact of the sharp drop, ICBC, China Construction Bank, Shenzhen Development A, China Merchants Bank, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, Industrial Bank, Beijing Bank, CITIC Industrial Bank, Huaxia Bank fell Stop, Minsheng Bank, Bank of Communications also decline more than 9%.

银行上市公司在全球金融股和弱势类贷款利率已经降低了大幅下滑，工商银行，中国建设银行，深圳发展的，中国招商银行，上海浦东发展银行，兴业银行，北京银行的双重影响，中信实业银行，华夏银行下跌停止，民生银行，交通银行也超过9％的跌幅。

In June 2009, for example, sales of games in America were 31% lower than in June 2008, accord in g to NPD, a market-research firm. In July sales were down 26%, the fifth successive monthly decl in e.

比方说，根据市场调查公司NPD的数据，2009年6月美国电玩游戏的销量同比下降31%。2009年七月，销量环比下降26%，是连续第五个月出现销量下滑。

Turning in lost items Ask the people around you if they lost the item you found; if not, write your name and the date on a slip of paper and tape the item to it; if it is money or something valuable, put the item and slip on my desk for safekeeping; if not, put it in the Lost and Found box; give yourself a "pat on the back" for being honest.

在遗失物品车削-问问你身边的人，如果他们失去了您找到的物品，如果没有，你的名字，并写在一张纸和磁带的下滑给它的项目的日期，如果是金钱或是有价值的东西，把项目和防滑我保管台；如果没有，把它在失物招领箱，让自己的背部&拍&的诚实。

Perkins played at Ranger Junior College before transferring to Abilene Christian, where he lettered in football and track.

尽管博金斯在职业生涯的首个赛季和1978赛季分别完成了20次和32次进攻，但是两个赛季后的腿部伤病却导致他的成绩下滑。

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。