Your chances of being more carefully considered for the job can quickly go downhill just by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

如果你在错误的时间说了错误的话，在这份工作上你被仔细考虑的机会就会迅速减少。

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But then these efforts began to go downhill.

之后，这些努力就开始走下坡路。

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They began to stay away in droves and Underground Atlanta quickly began to go downhill.

他们许多人不再来光顾了，于是地下亚特兰大很快就开始走上了下坡路。

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Once I lost my job, everything started to go downhill from there."

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The cow seemed to be trying to go downhill but for some reason it could not.

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Moreover, if charter schools go downhill they can usually be closed more easily than traditional schools.

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His Jumptheshark.com site catalogs when popular TV shows have "jumped the shark"--that is, the moment they start to go downhill.

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