每个父母都熟悉，青春期的孩子在要钱无果之后有易怒的习惯，由于这些孩子提出要求时不合时宜，忽视了家庭当时的经济状况。
EVERY parent will be familiar with adolescents' irritating habit of asking for money at inappropriate times, regardless of the state of the family finances.
他们不开心是因为（标准普尔指数）下跌标志着他们对（股票）未来收益增长的期许忽然跌到谷底；一般而言，当时经济状况肯定糟透了。
They were unhappy because it signalled that expectations for growth had plummeted; economic conditions, broadly speaking, were awful.
整个九十年代，美国的犯罪率都在下降，如果说这是因为当时经济状况良好的话，可到了新世纪初期的衰退时期，犯罪率仍在保持下降(见图)。
Rates fell throughout the 1990s, when America's economy was healthy, but they kept falling during the recession in the early 2000s (see chart).
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