After we turn 60, taste and smell gradually decline, partly as a result of the normal ageing process.

我们60岁以后，味觉和嗅觉逐渐下降，部分因为正常的衰老过程。

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Analysts had expected the prices of e-readers would gradually fall because of the natural decline in component costs and the increased profitability of e-books themselves.

分析师们过去只预测到了电纸书终端的价格将会随着组件成本的下降以及终端所带来的电子书销售利润率的增加而逐渐下降。

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To be sure, with the economy gradually finding a bottom and the rate of decline in home prices slowing, the chances of a downward spiral of deflation and economic activity have diminished.

毫无疑问，随着经济逐渐触底，国内衰退速度减缓，通货紧缩和经济活动的螺旋式下降发生的可能性越来越小。

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CO2 emissions must eventually peak and gradually decline toward zero, regardless of whether we go for a target of 350ppm or 1, 000ppm.

ECONOMIST: Blowing hot and cold

The Committee now expects a somewhat slower pace of recovery over coming quarters than it did at the time of the previous meeting and anticipates that the unemployment rate will decline only gradually toward levels that the Committee judges to be consistent with its dual mandate.

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The suicide rate then rose gradually through the 1960s and 1970s, but in the 1980s it began to decrease, continuing to decline steadily until 2000. (Anyone recall what happened to the economy in 2000?) From 2000 to 2007, the last year for which the researchers had data, the suicide rate was on the rise.

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