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According to "The Economist" on the major cities in the world cost of living index of Statistics, Hong Kong's ranking from No.

据"经济学家"杂志上的主要城市在世界上生活费用指数的统计，香港的排名由去年的第5号，下降到今年第12号，这是自1997年后首次在香港下跌前五年，在这主要是由于美元贬值-上半年，港元汇率货币的主要贸易伙伴下降了6％。

Even in go-go China, passenger-car sales fell 6% in August, the first decline in more than two years.

即使在最现代化的中国，轿车的销售在八月份也下降了6%，为两年多来的首次下降。

As for plant engineering, 2006 closed with a estimated global production of around 250 thousand tonnes, two thirds of which was traded, with the Italians still first despite having lost five points of the market share, which has dropped from 42 to 37 percent, with shipments for over 600 thousand hundredweight and a turnover of 500 million euro, with 245 million in consumables (abrasives, blades, diamond-tipped tools, adhesives and similar products), on the increase overall.

到2006底，全球设备工程的生产量估计达到25万吨。其中三分之二用于贸易。尽管其市场份额下降了5个百分点，从42%下降为 37%，意大利的机械设备市场仍然位居全球第一。机械运输超过60万英担，营业额多达5亿欧元。其中2.45亿欧元来自消费品（如研磨材料、刀片、金刚石绳锯、胶粘剂及其相关产品。

Nordstrom's sales are down almost 16%, JC Penney's dropped 13%.

Nordstrom 的销售几乎下降 16%，而杰西潘妮则下降了 13%。

In addition, the number of synaptic sites that express detectable levels of GABARs was decreased by approximately 50% after activity blockade, although there was no reduction in the total number of presynaptic contacts.

另外，突触点的数量表示，在活动阻闭后GABARs可见的水准下降了约50%，虽然突触前接触的总数没有下降。

Taken as an adjusted series, the 0.3% drop registered in May compared to April is caused by the drops registered by the significant industrial groups such as the soft goods industry (-1.6%) and the durable goods industry (-0.6%).

作为一个调整，下降了0.3 ％，登记在4月相比， 5月是下降所造成的重大登记的工业群体，如软用品制造业（-1.6 ％）和耐用消费品行业（-0.6 ％）。

In the smoke-exposed mice, PGC-1alpha mRNA was decreased, by 48% in soleus and 23% in EDL.

暴露在吸烟环境的小鼠，PGC-1α mRNA表达下降，在比目鱼肌和趾长伸肌分别下降了48％和23％。

One spot of uniersally good news was the drop in deaths among both men and women for colorectal cancer; it saw the largest decline of all cancers because of increased awareness and early screening.

通常的好消息中的一点是在男性和女性中的结肠癌死亡都下降了；它是所有癌症下降最快的，因为人们警觉性增加和早期的检查。

Crime did go down in New York, but was it directly related to the squeegee decline?

在纽约，犯罪率确实下降了，但是这直接和"车道上擦汽车玻璃"下降相关吗？

"The ocean floor has got on average older and gone down and so the sea level has also fallen," says Dr Bernhard Steinberger at the Geological Survey of Norway, one of five authors of a report in the journal Science.

科学》杂志上一篇报道的五个撰稿人之一、挪威地质调查局的伯恩哈德·斯坦伯格博士说：总之，洋底在老化而且在下降，所以海平面也随之下降了。

The reasons of iron ions content overproof in grade Ⅱ desalting water system,such as variation water quality,contamination of regenerant , operation adjustment of pretreatment system and switching operation of bed were discussed.

对二级脱盐水系统中铁离子含量超标的原因，如来水水质发生波动、再生剂受到污染、预处理系统操作调整、床体运行切换等进行了论述。

You were hired to drum up new business, so go and do it.

公司雇你招徕新业务，你就做你的事好了。