For most of the past decade, the nominal value of the rupee has been allowed to decline gently against the dollar, by about 5% a year, thus staying fairly steady in real terms.

在过去十年中的大部分时候，卢比的面值被允许以每年约5%的幅度相对于美元温和地贬值，因此它的实际价值是相当稳定的。

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Observers frequently point out that many of the yuan’s gains in recent months have been on the back of a weakening U.S. dollar, leaving it still a long way to go in terms of real appreciation.

观察家反复指出，最近几个月来人民币升值主要是美元持续疲软引起的，要使人民币真正升值还有很长的路要走。

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The dollar after all has fallen by 16% from its 2002 peak in real terms.

毕竟自2002年的巅峰以来，美元的真实价值已经下跌了16%。

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Below I have plotted the trend in the amount of money earned from the average license, measured in real dollar terms from 2003 through 2009.

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During this dreary ten year stretch stocks have essentially gone nowhere in nominal terms and, adjusting for inflation, are actually down big in real dollar terms.

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Overall, the cost of electricity, which declined (in real dollar terms) for the last two decades of the 20th century, has been relentlessly tracking up since 2001.

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