Again, when you have married your wife, you would think you were got upon a hilltop, and might begin to go downward by an easy slope.

当你步入婚姻的殿堂，你可能认为已经爬到了山顶，剩下的只是悠闲地沿着平缓的山坡下山。

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The law shows that, along with the static pre-load increasing, the dynamical bending strength of concrete would go up to a peak value and then move downward to the static strength.

计算结果显示，不同细观骨料模型具有相似的规律，即随预静载增大，混凝土动弯拉强度上升，至一定峰值后回归到静载强度。

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How easy it is to go from bad to worse, when once we have started upon a downward course!

只要我们一开始走下坡路，越变越坏可真容易呀！

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"If we go into a protectionist downward spiral, we are lost,".

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And what we know is that very often we enter a downward spiral, a vicious cycle when we go into this narrow and constrict mode.

我们知道经常会进入下行螺旋，一个恶性循环，当我们进入狭窄收紧的模式。

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And the challenge is to combine "the permission to be human" to experience the emotion to go through the motion and yet not to enter the downward spiral where six months later, after small incident, I'm still in that rot.

困难在于将之与准许为人相结合“,去体会情绪，实现转移,但不会进入下行螺旋，在发生小小意外六个月后，仍心情低落。

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You go in a downward spiral.

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Prices and incomes go down together and once that pattern becomes anticipated, deflationary psychology causes a destructive downward spiral of spending.

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"We are looking at a sharp and sustained downward trend, which should give the Reserve Bank of India the elbow room to go ahead at least with a couple of more rate cuts, " said Abheek Barua, chief economist at HDFC Bank.

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