In the economic depression the firm laid off some of their workmen.

经济萧条时，公司临时辞退了一些工人。

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The country was in the grip of (an) economic depression.

当时国家处于经济萧条期。

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Most of employers are planning to cut down on wages instead of laying off employees in response to the economic depression.

为了应对经济萧条，大多数雇主正计划降低工资，而不是裁员。

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He was sworn-in as president seventy-six years ago during the Great Depression -- the worst economic crisis in the country's history.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

The debate over gold and silver was especially important because of an economic depression that began in the United States in eighteen ninety-three.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

When the economic depression began in eighteen ninety-three, George Pullman cut the size of his work force.

VOA: special.2010.06.24

He came to power in 1933, when the entire industrialized world was mired in the Great Depression, the worst economic slump in modern times.

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The only 40-year periods in which the economic growth was slower were those ending in the Great Depression, from 1930 to 1940.

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Four years ago, the world was mired in the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression.

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