The death rate of children under five years of age is dropping, with “clear evidence of accelerating rates of decline, ” according to The Lancet.

据《柳叶刀》杂志报道，非洲5岁以下儿童的死亡率正在下跌，“证据显示下降速度正在加快”。

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The result has been a steady and accelerating decline in the power of the military industrial complex.

结果就是稳定的，加速的军事联合工业力量的衰落。

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The figures show last October's debut of Windows 8 Microsoft's latest operating software designed to work on touch-screen devices like tablets and on conventional computers controlled by keyboards and mice hasn't revived sales of personal computers and may be accelerating the decline.

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The accelerating decline in the Ceridian trucking index is troubling because it should reflect how many 60, 000-pound trailer loads are actually moving from place to place.

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More menacing to Iran's future is the accelerating decline of its oilfields.

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