If the Great Depression is any guide, we may see a drop in our sky-high divorce rate.
如果以大萧条为鉴，我们可能会看到我们极高的离婚率有所下降。
That's important—this really does happen, stocks really do drop in price on the ex-dividend date.
这很重要——这种情况确实会发生，股价通常会在除息日下跌。
Shifting eating habits, including a sharp drop in consumption of sparkling drinks, have forced a radical change in the industry.
饮食习惯的改变，包括汽水消费量的大幅下降，迫使该行业发生了根本性的变化。
Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent.
很多人都在谈论劳工部公布的6月份新增28.8万个工作岗位，失业率降至6.1%的消息。
For three-year-olds, for reasons that are still in need of clarification, no improvement—rather a slight drop in performance resulted from the change.
对于三岁的孩子来说，由于一些原因，他们的成绩并没有得到改善，只是因为改变而略有下降。
A new data shows that the global AIDS pandemic will cause a sharp drop in life expectancy in dozens of countries, in some cases declines of almost three decades.
一项新的数据显示，全球艾滋病疫情将导致数十个国家的预期寿命大幅下降，在有些国家寿命减幅近30年。
A small drop in the inflation rate was cold comfort for the millions without a job.
对数百万失业者来说，通货膨胀率的微降是不起作用的安慰。
To avoid this drop in learning, it's up to parents to encourage continued learning during the summer.
为了避免这种学习下降，父母应该鼓励孩子在暑假继续学习。
In Britain you may often hear "Drop in any time" or "Come to see me soon", but you can't really do that.
在英国，你可能经常听到“随时来”或“快来看我”，但实际上你不能真的这么做。
A study shows that 16% of the bar and pub owners are upset to notice a drop in business, because smokers prefer killing time at home and seldom go out for a drink.
一项研究表明，16%的酒吧和酒馆老板因注意到生意下降而感到不快，因为吸烟者更喜欢在家里消磨时间，很少出去喝酒。
It can generate 194 megawatts of electric power, but that's just a drop in the bucket.
它可以产生194兆瓦的电力，但那只是沧海一粟。
He said by the end of the year, there was a 6 percent drop in the consumption of such drinks.
他说，到今年年底，这类饮料的消费量下降了6% 。
After that, feeling the need to explore further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL club's meetings.
在那之后，觉得有必要进一步探索，我决定去参加美国手语俱乐部的会议。
Now, hotel, restaurant and bar owners have said they could face a 10% drop in trade with the new rules.
现在，酒店、餐厅和酒吧老板说，新规定实施后，他们可能会面临生意减少10%。
Hundreds of people had to be turned away because the stadium was so full that couldn't even admit one drop in.
成百上千人都被拒之门外，因为体育馆已经座无虚席，无法容纳多余的人了。
Her 20-dollar donation is a drop in the bucket because they need to raise thousands of dollars for this project.
她20美元的捐款只是九牛一毛，因为他们需要为这个项目筹集几千美元。
Hotel owners have been forced to find new ways of attracting tourists since the sudden drop in tourism last year.
自从去年旅游业急剧下滑以来，饭店的老板被迫去寻找新的吸引游客的方法。
Online shopping for the holiday season remained just a drop in the ocean of the estimated US$450 billion spent by US consumers.
在美国消费者估计花费的4500亿美元中，假日网购只是沧海一粟。
While it's possible bike-sharing will cause a drop in business, Crooks allowed that the idea is a positive step forward for New York City.
虽然共享单车可能会导致业务下滑，但克鲁克斯认为，这一想法对纽约市来说是向前迈出的积极一步。
Experiments have also cast serious doubt on the belief that yawning is triggered by a drop in blood oxygen or a rise in blood carbon dioxide.
对于打哈欠是由血液中的氧气减少或血液中的二氧化碳增加引起的这种观点，一些实验也同样提出了严重的质疑。
Pay has always been the biggest deterrent, as people with families often feel they cannot afford the drop in salary when moving to a university job.
工资一直是最大的威慑因素，因为有家庭的人往往觉得，当他们找一份大学工作时，他们担负不起薪水的下降。
A surge in new home sales and a drop in weekly unemployment claims suggest that the economy might not be as weak as some analysts previously thought.
新屋销售激增和每周失业救济人数下降表明，经济可能不像一些分析师此前预期的那样疲软。
Consider that nearly two-thirds of students will experience the "ninth-grade shock," which refers to a dramatic drop in a student's academic performance.
考虑到近三分之二的学生都将经历“九年级冲击，即学生的学习成绩急剧下降。
Many people talked of the 288,000 new jobs the Labor Department reported for June, along with the drop in the unemployment rate to 6.1 percent, as good news.
劳工部公布6月份新增了28.8万个工作岗位，失业率下降到6.1%，许多人认为这是好消息。
Soon afterward, the Federal government drastically cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later abolished them, causing a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation.
很快，联邦政府就彻底地切断了用于此类目的的开销，后来直接取消了这项开支，这导致了营业中的托儿所数量锐减。
The strength of an individual, as compared with that of the masses, is but a drop in the ocean.
个人的力量和群众的力量相比，不过是沧海一粟。
This essay examines the phenomenon of pro-drop in the English output by students of Chinese L1.
本文探讨了汉语L1学生的英语输出下降现象。
A drop in the euro is also pressuring stocks.
欧元汇率下跌也对股市施压。
"Why the sudden drop in Numbers?" asks Wilcove.
“为什么红腹滨鹬的数量突然减少？”威尔考乌问。
Cisco Systems reported a drop in quarterly profit.
思科系统公司公布它第二季度的利润呈现下滑。
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