In the e-mail, he used the words "trick" and "hide the decline" when writing about a graph showing rising temperatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

Now Buckle is a forgotten name today, but at one time he was just about as famous as Oswald Spengler who wrote The Decline of the West.

现在巴克尔已经被人们淡忘了，但他曾和写《西方的没落》的,奥斯瓦尔德，斯宾格勒一样著名。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The Dutch economy, the equivalent would be the decline of the Venetian economic power in the Mediterranean-- and trade with the East diminishes.

而荷兰经济的崩溃,有点类似于地中海威尼斯的经济下降,他们和东方的贸易往来也锐减

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

But IMF deputy managing director John Lipsky warns that the decline is likely to continue for several more months.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

And in the--from 1989 to 2006 there was a pretty significant decline, but even in 1989 the numbers weren't very high.

我们看到,从1989到,2006年有个很明显的下降,但是即使是在1989年这个数字也不高

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Nwanze says the decline was as much as a third in Africa and two-thirds in Asia and Latin America.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

That means that the price of each share should decline by the amount they paid out divided by the number of shares.

这就意味着每股价格会降低,降低值为,总开支除以总股数

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Nye agrees with Mr.Klaus that the primary causes of the Soviet collapse were economic failure and the decline of communist ideology.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

And what this is is technically described as a decline in the tendency to respond to stimuli that are familiar due to repeated exposure.

它在学术上被描述为,由于重复暴露在刺激环境中,而造成对该刺激反应倾向的降低。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

(SAYING:mortality rates in the United States) About 40 percent of the decrease for men resulted from the decline in lung cancer death.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

Nonetheless, I think it's safe to say you see a gradual decline in the cultural idealization of virginity and a corresponding increase in the valuation of marriage in this new form of chastity that we can think of as married chastity.

然而我认为这么说还是比较保险,你们看到童贞理想化的逐渐下降趋势,而同时婚姻定位的逐渐上升,以这种新形式出现的贞节，我们可以看做是婚姻的贞节。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

In fact, the decline has been remarkably consistent. This month we lost 663,000 jobs.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

In Dallas, 3% the home price decline was only 3%.

但在达拉斯，房价只下跌了。

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The Asia Pacific region led the decline with a more than 14 percent fall off Passengers for North American flights fell by more than 13 percent.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

That explains, in large part, why there was such a decline in population, why the Dark Ages were so dark, lots of poverty, lots of starvation, but also, as I suggested when I spoke of this earlier, also the freedom if you could make it, to learn and also to grow stronger.

这解释了,在绝大部分地区,为什么存在着这一类的人口消减,为什么黑暗时代如此黑暗,如此贫困,如此多的饥荒,但是同时,就如在我之前所提到的,同样可以,如果做得到的话,去学习以及使自身强大

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Im Sambath says there are a number of reasons for the decline - from the changing travel habits of the Phnom Penh's citizens to the rise of the tuktuk - a motorized rickshaw.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

We forget about the enormous trading vitality of Asia, even sea vitality and land vitality at the same time, but they are without any question by this point-- with the decline of the Spanish empire, which begins before this course-- the Dutch and the English.

我们先不考虑亚洲大量的贸易活动,包括同时的陆上和海上贸易,在十七世纪之前,随着西班牙帝国的衰退,欧洲最大的贸易实体,毫无疑问是荷兰和英国

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U.S.officials, including the number-two American commander here, Army Lieutenant General Charles Jacoby, say such occasional spectacular attacks are,in a way, evidence of the decline of al-Qaida in Iraq, which once staged dozens of attacks every day.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

You said,if we invest in real estate The question is how we've dealt with decline in housing prices.

您提到过,耶鲁也有地产投资,提问是,我们是怎样应对房价下跌的

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

They were so effective and cost effective and yet immunization rates were on the decline if you look back 10 years ago, However,she says in the last nine years, immunization rates for such diseases as diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis have risen sharply.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

When the housing market is in decline, the ability to sell houses drops dramatically.

当住房市场衰退时,房屋销售量就会急剧下降

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

During this time the United States was in an economic decline known as the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

A much smaller peak, a much less rapid decline after the peak occurs.

一个较低的峰值,最大值出现后下降速度也较慢

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Certainly the good news is that the rate of deaths of children under five years of age continued to decline in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Well, that's because the housing market is now in decline.

因为住房市场正在衰退

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

We ,over the last twenty-five years, seen an alarming decline in the number of beekeepers.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

Boards always want to keep their price of a share up because if it starts to decline, the company could become a takeover target; it's viewed as a failure etc., etc.

董事们想将股价维持在高水准上,因为股价一旦下滑,公司很可能会成为收购目标,被人看做是决策失误等等

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

It was during the economic decline in the United States called the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

Now the two things to notice about this are the high spike that you have out here which occurs very rapidly and then the rapid decline in blood sugar, and insulin is involved in this whole reaction.

有两个需要注意的事情是,你们在这看到的急剧变化的曲线代表着,迅速上升和迅速下降的血糖,另外胰岛素也随之发生变化

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The peak occurs a little bit later and then there's a less rapid decline here, and then blood sugar actually ends up a little above this initial level, and therefore you're less likely to eat because you're less hungry.

峰值出现得比较晚,下降也较为缓慢,最后血糖结束在比起始值稍高的位置,因此人就没有那么想进食 因为不感觉饿

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