A group of Venetian residents concerned about this marked the city's population decline with a mock funeral procession.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Well, there's this funny glitch here between three-month and one-year, but then it just continued to decline.

虽然在三月到一年期债券间有个小波折,但整体趋势是向下的

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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。

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Many residents are concerned and feel something needs to be done about this steady demographic decline.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

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。

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The European Union predicts the German economy, Europe's largest, is likely to contract by 5.4 percent this year, a larger decline than the EU average.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

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

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

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

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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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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