But the situation denies many businesses the credit they need to operate, and further slows a struggling economy.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

It slows us down, yes, but this slowing down is a means of enriching what we finally grasp to be the meaning of a text.

它阻碍了我们的阅读,它阻碍了我们的阅读，但是同时也丰富了文本意义。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

And you don't want all the ideas to have to go through one person or one place, because that really slows things down.

我们不希望所有的想法,都来自一个人，或一个部门，因为这会很慢。

斯坦福公开课 - 戴尔CEO-Michael.Dell谈创业和发展课程节选

But it slows down in water that is not deep.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

We have kind of a slowing economy either because of that or because the economy kind of slows every once in a while.

我们的经济发展缓慢或者因为,上述原因或者因为我们的经济,偶尔陷入缓慢发展的泥潭。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

High unemployment reduces spending which slows recovery.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

What do we call the passage of music in which the beat slows down?

对于曲子中节拍慢下来的部分,我们怎么来描述它

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It's hard not to get caught up in this funny story. John Bevis tells a lot of tales this time of year when life slows down.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

And the experimenter is back there with the speed knob and at random intervals he just speeds up the tape of their heart and then slows it down.

实验者回到实验室，带着录音设备,随机地,他加速了心跳的录音,然后又慢下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

In other words, replacing the shortest distance between two points that we experience in a practical message, "literariness," as the formalists call it, or "poetic language," as they also sometimes call it and as the New Critics certainly call it, slows us down.

也就是说，实用语言以最短的距离,联系两点，而文学性，如形式主义者所称，或诗意的语言，他们有时也会这么叫,新批评派成员一定会这么称呼，使我们的理解速度慢了下来。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The tempo here is very slow and he slows it down even more and then it just sits out there, this huge wonderful voice that he had, on the leading tone.

速度非常缓慢,经他处理后就更慢了,余音缭绕,他在导音上展现了洪亮,精妙的歌喉

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

It slows down.

慢了下来

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选