The president pointed to stabilizing consumer spending and home sales, declining unemployment claims and an eroding number of job losses.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

So in the time of declining resources, we might look what we were doing with what we get in return for it.

在资源逐渐枯竭的时刻，倒是可以看看我们的付出到底得到了什么。

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is when you're declining to offer something.

这就是当你拒绝主动为他人做某事的时候。

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Wagoner has been criticized for his handling of G.M.'s declining fortunes, but he has said he intends to stay on.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

As you know, income inequality is getting worse, low-income wages are not going up, so that component of housing has been declining in real terms.

众所周之,收入的不平等愈演愈烈,低收入者的工资不会上涨,因此以实际值计算的这部分成本是下降的

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The month of February brought good news for the automobile sector as car sales jumped 22 percent, reversing four months of declining sales.

VOA: standard.2009.03.13

And so it's thought and the research suggests this to be the case, that during this period of time here when the blood sugar is declining very rapidly and then when it goes down to below its initial level here -- you see that--that people are especially hungry and want to eat more.

这个例子被认为,同时研究也证明了,在这段时间,当血糖迅速降低时,以及当血糖降低到比它的初值还低时,大家能看到人会特别饿和想多吃东西

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Like many hospital CEO's across the country, Baker says revenues are declining while operating costs are rising.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

In response to the subprime crisis that we are now in, our central bank, the Federal Reserve, has been cutting interest rates aggressively to try to save the economy that appears to be declining.

为了积极应对,目前的次贷危机,我们的中央银行,也就是美联储,已经调低利率,来积极地拯救正在衰退的经济

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The cut in staff comes as the volume of mail in the United States is declining.

VOA: standard.2010.04.13

The percent who think it's the best investment is higher in Los Angeles than in Milwaukee, and since the peak of the bubble in 2003, it's been declining in Los Angeles but, surprisingly, rising in Milwaukee.

认为房地产是最佳投资选择的人群,在洛杉矶居民中所占比例远高于密尔沃基,自从2003年房产泡沫达到最高峰,洛杉矶房价就一直在下跌,令人惊异的是密尔沃基房价仍在上涨

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WHO says declining air quality worsens illnesses and deaths from asthma,heart disease, and lung cancer.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

As you can see, part of the reason why the dividend-earnings ratio-- especially in more recent years, since 1990-- has been declining is that corporations were trying to somewhat ease the tax burden on their shareholders by doing repurchase instead of dividend.

可以看出,股利收益比降低的部分原因,尤其是在近些年,从1990年起,有所降低的原因是,公司想通过将分红,改为股票回购的方法,多少减轻股东的税负

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Venetians have been concerned about the declining population of the canal city for decades.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

This is a lot of money,". In announcing their decision, Federal Reserve policy makers noted significant challenges facing the economy, including rising unemployment and declining consumer spending.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

President Medvedev says Russia will devote considerable resources to develop and purchase new weapons, despite a tight national budget affected by the declining price of Russian oil exports.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

He was in the hospital, running a high fever and declining quickly.

VOA: standard.2010.01.12

Health Affairs editor Susan Dentzer says the rapid advance of information technology, along with declining prices, presents what she calls a spectacular opportunity in poor and middle-income nations.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

Grayson says Mexico's gross domestic product is likely to drop 5.5 percent this year due to the flu scare, the worldwide recession and declining production from Mexico's oil fields.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

And Mongrenier noted that European defense budgets overall are declining.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

At a time when newspaper circulation is declining rapidly around the world, Financial Times Web site (FT) says its subscriptions are up 22 percent, while revenues have jumped 30 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

Support for the eight-year-old war is declining among Americans.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Public opinion polls show rapidly declining support for both.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Far from declining further, he predicts production will double.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

Like declining HDL or "good" cholesterol.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

If they can organize as well in Yemen or Somalia or someplace else, then why fight in Afghanistan where no one has been successful for millennia?" U.S.public-opinion surveys show declining support for the war in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

"There is a realization at the end of the day that despite all the profits that Russia got from its sale of oil and gas over the last 10 years, that unless it modernizes its economy and reforms it, it will be a declining power."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

(Speaking) Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned Kremlin critic and former head of the Yukos Oil Company, in a recent op-ed column, said Russia's demand for skills in fundamental and applied sciences is declining in light of the appetite for raw materials and corruption.

VOA: standard.2010.02.03