In places, the water table is declining at a rate of a meter a year, necessitating the periodic deepening of wells and the use of ever-more-powerful pumps.

在一些地方，水位正以每年一米的速度下降，需要定期加深井并使用更强大的水泵。

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While you'll want your emergency savings to be liquid, consider keeping it in a different bank than your main checking account and declining a debit card.

当你想让你的应急储蓄流动的时候，可以考虑把钱存在不同的银行而不要放在你的主支票帐户，同时不要使用借记卡。

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In the U.S. and Europe, for example, the rise of the Internet has led to a declining consumption of news from outside the reader's borders.

例如，在美国和欧洲，互联网兴起导致读者对境外新闻消费的下降。

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President Medvedev says Russia will devote considerable resources to develop and purchase new weapons, despite a tight national budget affected by the declining price of Russian oil exports.

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He was in the hospital, running a high fever and declining quickly.

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Health Affairs editor Susan Dentzer says the rapid advance of information technology, along with declining prices, presents what she calls a spectacular opportunity in poor and middle-income nations.

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We would expect to see such subsidies declining a bit as various Android etc phones come up to the iPhone standard.

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Although the net-long for speculators has rebounded from the lows set a few weeks ago, Citigroup said the long exposure remains under a still-declining a 10-week average.

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The National Association of Realtors expects sales of existing homes to remain essentially flat, declining a slight 0.6 percent from 6.48 million in 2006 to 6.44 million in 2007.

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