He describes the dazed incomprehension of those who came of age during the boom and who now do not know how to cope with a slump.

他描写了那些在经济繁荣时期成长起来的人们的幻觉与迷失，而现在一旦面对经济衰退却又束手无策。

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There is more unemployment or underemployment of Labour and capital equipment in the slump than in the boom.

在衰退时期比繁荣时期劳动力和资本设备方面出现更多失业或就业不足的现象。

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Mining boom stirs wave of mergers and talk of slump.

采矿风潮搅动合并浪潮以及重挫之说。

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However, the end of the real-estate boom and the nine years of economic slump since then have turned the old castle saying on its head.

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Of course oil prices could always slump, puncturing the nascent domestic oil and gas boom.

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The slump started with a collapse in business investment following the excesses of the late 1990s technology and telecoms boom.

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