| 1. | His eyesight is failing .
他的视力在衰退。 |
| 2. | There is more unemployment or underemployment of labour and capital equipment in the slump than in the boom .
在衰退时期比繁荣时期劳动力和资本设备方面出现更多失业或就业不足的现象。 |
| 3. | She has been failing in health for the last two years
近两年来,她的健康一直在衰退。 |
| 4. | Bad and irregular eating was weakening every function of his body
吃得又差又没有规律，使他身体的每一个官能都在衰退。 |
| 5. | On the decline
在衰退中 |
| 6. | For as long as most people can remember , food has been getting cheaper and farming has been in decline
就人们的记忆所及，食品一直在跌价，而农业一直在衰退。 |
| 7. | The man wanes , the need continues or grows , and the fortune , fallen into whose hands it may , continues
人在衰退，需求在继续或者在增长，那么这份财产，无论可能会落入谁的手中，都会维持下去。 |
| 8. | The share of people willing to work may fall in a recession , for instance , as discouraged people temporarily drop out of the workforce
比如在衰退中，当失望的人们暂时退出劳动队伍，愿意工作的人所占的比率可能会下降。 |
| 9. | Nearly two years after the official recession ended in november of 2001 , companies are still shedding workers and business fixed investment remains anemic
差不多在衰退两年之后的2001年11月结束，公司任就在裁员，商业投资仍然不足。 |
| 10. | By luck more than design , the income - tax rebate was well timed ( mr bush had promised to cut taxes long before the recession hit )
与其说是有心栽花不如说是无心插柳，此次削减所得税的时机把握得恰到好处（其实在衰退到来很久之前布什就承诺进行减税） 。 |
