Economic activity often follows a cyclical pattern.

经济活动常常遵循周期性模式。

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Out of the ashes of the economic shambles, a phoenix of recovery can arise.

复苏之凤会从经济废墟的灰烬中腾飞而起。

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The government has instigated a programme of economic reform.

政府已实施了经济改革方案。

《牛津词典》

A city report says economic activity last year totaled almost three billion dollars, a four percent decrease from two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Unity was difficult. Being somewhat isolated, the inhabitants of each region developed a distinctive economic and cultural character.

团结很困难，它有一点孤立，每一个地域的居民都发展起来,有了各自经济文化特点。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

then there's a whole array of economic arguments, and the cynic, the economic determinist, simply goes to the economic conclusions of pro-slavery and nowhere else.

于是有了一系列的经济学论据,愤世嫉俗地经济决定论者,单纯的从经济角度出发,来支持亲奴主义者

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

So today we face an array of serious and growing economic challenges that call for a president willing to make responsible economic stewardship a key priority, willing to confront complex problems and devise comprehensive responses, a president who always puts the middle class first.

CNN: Clinton's November 19, 2007, speech on economic challenges

Of course, he was referring to the fact that it would be unprecedented in the modern era of the Supreme Court, since the New Deal era, for the Supreme Court to overturn legislation passed by Congress designed to regulate and deal with a national economic -- a matter of national economic importance like our health care system.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

That scenario will make near-term paralysis a certainty and future economic catastrophe a distinct possibility.

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