| 1. | Solar irradiance decreases towards the poles .
太阳辐照率向两极递减。 |
| 2. | There is a general decrease in grain size upward .
粒度一般是向上递减的。 |
| 3. | The demand for tea is on the decrease ( each year ) .
茶叶的需求量（逐年）递减。 |
| 4. | Diminishing marginal utility also expresses a "variety is the spice of life" .
边际效用递减也表现为一种“多样化是生活乐趣”。 |
| 5. | This process is never completed, but it disobeys the law of diminishing returns .
这个过程是无止境的，可是这违背了报酬递减律。 |
| 6. | As a result, they are subject to rapidly diminishing returns to increased labor inputs .
结果，增加劳动投入，反而使其收益迅速递减。 |
| 7. | There is a range of applied force over which the regression rate remains constant .
施加的力有一个范围，在这个范围内递减率保持不变。 |
| 8. | Where declining costs do not exist, the presence of state enterprise is controversial .
在不存在成本递减的地方，对国营企业的存在是有争论的。 |
| 9. | The decreasing character of a function with negative derivative can be proved by an analogous argument .
负导数函数具有递减性的证明完全类似。 |
