Cost cutting lay-offs in the 1980s reduced the professional and managerial ranks leaving fewer people to get the job done.
20世纪80年代削减成本的裁员减少了专业人员和管理层的人数，留下更少能完成工作的人。
In the 1980s, the company was notorious for shady deals.
在20世纪80年代，这个公司因不法交易而臭名昭著。
All the steelworks around here were closed down in the 1980s.
这一带的所有钢铁厂都在20世纪80年代倒闭了。
It is still labouring under the debt that it was encumbered with in the 1980s.
它现在仍旧背负着在20世纪80年代就深受其累的债务。
Honda won fame in the 1980s as the little car company that humbled the industry giants.
20世纪80年代，本田作为一家小型汽车公司因一举击垮行业巨头而声名鹊起。
Much of the apparent growth in profits in the 1980s was the result of creative accounting.
20世纪80年代利润的显著增长中，有很多都是伪造账目的结果。
I just know he was born in the 1980s.
我只知道他出生在20世纪80年代。
As far as I know, the robot that can sweep the floor was invented in the 1980s.
据我所知，扫地机器人是在20世纪80年代发明的。
Before the discovery of DNA information in the 1980s, fingerprints were the easiest way to solve serious crimes.
在20世纪80年代 DNA 信息被发现之前，指纹是解决重大犯罪最简单的方法。
In the 1980s, he went around the world and gave advice about growing rice to farmers in other countries.
20世纪80年代，他周游世界，为其他国家的农民提供种植水稻的建议。
The love for shared bikes is not only among young people, who were born in the 1980s and 1990s, but also among people over sixty.
对共享单车的热爱不仅体现在80后和90后的年轻人身上，也存在于60岁以上的人群中。
After becoming an important part of many British streets, the phone boxes began disappearing in the 1980s, with the rise of the mobile phone sending most of them away to the junkyards.
电话亭曾是英国许多街道上的重要一员，但随着手机的兴起，电话亭于20世纪80年代开始消失，绝大部分被丢至废品场。
In the 1980s, the government cut spending.
在20世纪80年代，政府削减了开支。
China started the one-child policy in the 1980s.
中国从上世纪80年代开始实行计划生育政策。
In the 1980s and 1990s, young people in the UK became wealthier on average.
在上世纪80年代和90年代，从平均来看，英国的年轻人变得更为富有。
In the 1980s, electrical lines and lead poisoning nearly drove them to dying out.
在20世纪80年代，电线和铅中毒几乎使它们濒临灭绝。
Specifically, paid time off, holidays, vacations, sick leave shrank by 50% in the 1980s.
具体地说，带薪假、公共假期、病假在20世纪80年代缩减了50％。
An analogy might be the Plaza Agreements with Japan in the 1980s when the Japanese similarly built up a huge imbalance.
日本在20世纪80年代签署的《广场协议》或许可以作为类比，当时日本同样积累了巨大的失衡。
Back in the 1980s, researchers found that jumping on a trampoline was a good way to help astronauts regain their strength.
早在20世纪80年代，研究人员就发现在蹦床上跳跃是帮助宇航员恢复力量的好方法。
"One reason for these decreases in height is the economic situation in the 1980s," said Alexander Moradi of the University of Sussex.
“下降的原因之一是20世纪80年代的经济形势。”苏塞克斯大学的亚历山大·莫拉迪说。
Sheep once sold for as little as 50 cents each during a glut in the 1980s, but today some breeds of ewe can sell for as much as $200 a pop.
在20世纪80年代的一次供过于求中，羊的价格一度低至每只50美分，但如今一些品种的母羊可以卖到每只200美元。
However, once China began embracing free-market reforms in the 1980s, followed by India in the 1990s, both countries achieved rapid growth.
然而，上世纪80年代，中国开始推行自由市场改革；90年代，印度紧随其后，两国都实现了快速增长。
The obesity epidemic began in the 1980s, and many people attribute it to increased portion sizes and inactivity, but that can't be everything.
肥胖在20世纪80年代开始蔓延，许多人将其归咎于食物份量增加和缺乏运动，但这不可能是全部原因。
The ISTP team's research demonstrates that the population and job density of cities rose or remained constant in the 1980s after decades of decline.
ISTP团队的研究表明，在经历了几十年的衰退后，城市人口和工作密度在20世纪80年代上升或保持不变。
In the 1980s Johnson & Johnson's swift recall of Tylenol capsules, after some packs had been laced with poison, made it a model for crisis management.
20世纪80年代，由于一些药盒内掺入了有毒物质，强生迅速召回泰诺胶囊，这曾使它成为危机管理的楷模。
Starting in the 1980s, skill in finance grew in importance, and, as depicted in the news media and the movies, became a more appealing source of income.
从20世纪80年代开始，金融技能变得越来越重要，正如新闻媒体和电影所描述的那样，金融技能成为一种更有吸引力的收入来源。
But twin studies took a surprising twist in the 1980s, with the arrival of studies into identical twins who had been separated at birth and reunited as adults.
但在20世纪80年代，对出生时被分开而成年后重新团聚的同卵双胞胎进行研究时，双胞胎研究出现了令人惊讶的转折。
The power of small, grassroots movements to make changes that spread beyond their place of origin can be seen with the Slow Food movement, which began in Italy in the 1980s.
从20世纪80年代开始于意大利的慢食运动中，我们可以看出小型草根运动的力量，这些运动的影响可以超越其发源地。
His fall from grace in the 1980s, followed by his return to Apple in 1996 after a period in the wilderness, is an inspiration to any businessperson whose career has taken a turn for the worse.
他在二十世纪80年代失宠，在一段时间的沉寂后于1996年重返苹果。对于任何一位职业生涯一落千丈的商人来说，这都是一种鼓舞。
His fall from grace in the 1980s, followed by his return to Apple in 1996 after a period in the wilderness, is an inspiration to any businessperson whose career has taken a turn for the worse.
他在二十世纪80年代失宠，在一段时间的沉寂后于1996年重返苹果。对于任何一位职业生涯一落千丈的商人来说，这都是一种鼓舞。
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