Global Witness says trends in the number and average size of oil discoveries has been in decline since 1965.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

When the housing market is in decline, the ability to sell houses drops dramatically.

当住房市场衰退时,房屋销售量就会急剧下降

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Well, that's because the housing market is now in decline.

因为住房市场正在衰退

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Australia and New Zealand's relations with and their small South Pacific neighbor,Fiji, have been in decline since an army coup in December 2006.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

And in the--from 1989 to 2006 there was a pretty significant decline, but even in 1989 the numbers weren't very high.

我们看到,从1989到,2006年有个很明显的下降,但是即使是在1989年这个数字也不高

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Indeed,volatile food prices, population growth, low agricultural productivity and the potentially devastating effects of climate change make it a particularly daunting challenge. The IFAD president says over the past 30 years, agricultural productivity in developing countries has been stagnant or in decline. He blames it on years of under-investment.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

The Dutch economy, the equivalent would be the decline of the Venetian economic power in the Mediterranean-- and trade with the East diminishes.

而荷兰经济的崩溃,有点类似于地中海威尼斯的经济下降,他们和东方的贸易往来也锐减

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Professor Jones had used the words "trick" and "hide the decline" in relation to a graph showing temperature decreases.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

And what this is is technically described as a decline in the tendency to respond to stimuli that are familiar due to repeated exposure.

它在学术上被描述为,由于重复暴露在刺激环境中,而造成对该刺激反应倾向的降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In the e-mail, he used the words "trick" and "hide the decline" when writing about a graph showing rising temperatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Nonetheless, I think it's safe to say you see a gradual decline in the cultural idealization of virginity and a corresponding increase in the valuation of marriage in this new form of chastity that we can think of as married chastity.

然而我认为这么说还是比较保险,你们看到童贞理想化的逐渐下降趋势,而同时婚姻定位的逐渐上升,以这种新形式出现的贞节，我们可以看做是婚姻的贞节。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Certainly the good news is that the rate of deaths of children under five years of age continued to decline in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

In Dallas, 3% the home price decline was only 3%.

但在达拉斯，房价只下跌了。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

During this time the United States was in an economic decline known as the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

That explains, in large part, why there was such a decline in population, why the Dark Ages were so dark, lots of poverty, lots of starvation, but also, as I suggested when I spoke of this earlier, also the freedom if you could make it, to learn and also to grow stronger.

这解释了,在绝大部分地区,为什么存在着这一类的人口消减,为什么黑暗时代如此黑暗,如此贫困,如此多的饥荒,但是同时,就如在我之前所提到的,同样可以,如果做得到的话,去学习以及使自身强大

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We ,over the last twenty-five years, seen an alarming decline in the number of beekeepers.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

You said,if we invest in real estate The question is how we've dealt with decline in housing prices.

您提到过,耶鲁也有地产投资,提问是,我们是怎样应对房价下跌的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It was during the economic decline in the United States called the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

Now the two things to notice about this are the high spike that you have out here which occurs very rapidly and then the rapid decline in blood sugar, and insulin is involved in this whole reaction.

有两个需要注意的事情是,你们在这看到的急剧变化的曲线代表着,迅速上升和迅速下降的血糖,另外胰岛素也随之发生变化

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"The expected decline in world hunger in two thousand ten is primarily the result of better access to food as the global economy recovers, and food prices remain below their peak level of mid-two thousand eight."

VOA: special.2010.09.21

In the city-states of Venice, which was a major trading city already on the decline, and in Florence, and in Milan, and in Turin, and in places like that you find something very comparable, but Italy is not united until the 1860s.

在威尼斯城邦,这个曾以贸易为主的城市已经走向衰落,而佛罗伦萨,米兰,都灵,类似的这些城市情况都是如此,除了十九世纪六十年代才统一的意大利

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

There has been good news in recent weeks for investors who watched stock markets decline sharply amid the global financial crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Nwanze says the decline was as much as a third in Africa and two-thirds in Asia and Latin America.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

A new study has failed to find any conclusive evidence that lifestyle changes can prevent cognitive decline in older adults.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

Mr.Medvedev told a meeting of government ministers in Moscow the global economic crisis has caused a sharp decline in Russian federal revenues.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25

(SAYING:mortality rates in the United States) About 40 percent of the decrease for men resulted from the decline in lung cancer death.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Unfortunately,starting in 2008, WHO says progress has stagnated because of a big decline in funding and lessening of political commitment for measles control.

VOA: standard.2010.05.21

It led to a rapid decline in foreign direct investment in Georgia and a rapid decline in growth, reinforced,of course, by the economic crisis.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Even after a decade-long decline in illegal logging,Ritter says, there's still a long way to go.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Some believe that population is stable in contrast to the eastern portion of the stock which is continuing to decline at probably lower population levels."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04