在衰退时期，培训预算被看成是消耗的奢侈品。

During the recession, training budgets were seen as an expendable luxury.

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在经济衰退时期，工作机会越来越少，或许青少年受到的打击会尤为严重。

As careers and vocations become less available during times of recession, adolescents may be especially hard hit.

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最让我担心的是，在经济衰退时期，政府应该鼓励企业寻找削减成本的方法。

What concerns me above all else is that in a recession governments should be encouraging business to find ways to cut costs.

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So I by that indicator we are in a recession and we don't know that it's over yet; it's been falling.

所以我，通过那个指数，我们正处于经济衰退时期,并且我们不知道它是否结束；它一直在下降。

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