Politicians like to pontificate about falling standards.

政客喜欢自以为是地谈论不断下降的标准。

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The teaching of grammar, punctuation and spelling is set to make a comeback in Australian schools in a bid to reverse falling standards of literacy.

在澳大利亚，教育部门为了扭转学生读写能力不断下降的趋势，决定恢复英语语法、标点符号及词语拼写教学的重要地位。

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Should we be alarmed by these accounts of falling standards of principles and morality?

我们该不该因这些关于行为准则和道德水准下降的报道而感到不安呢？

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It said the decision had been taken after council officers became concerned over falling standards.

BBC: Shropshire

When it joined the PEF scheme two years ago it suffered an exodus of fee-paying pupils whose parents worried about their children mixing with the wrong sort, and about falling standards (justifiably at first, test results showed).

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Many now complain about falling standards.

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