这个国家陷入了经济衰退的困境。

The country was mired in recession.

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该国受到经济衰退的严重影响。

The country has been badly affected by recession.

《牛津词典》

我们已渡过了经济衰退的最艰难时期。

We're over the worst of the recession.

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One of our folks reminded me, Microsoft was started and Apple was started during kind of a recessionary period.

我们的一位同事提醒过我，微软和苹果都是在,经济衰退期成立的。

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One comes to be favored and then eventually becomes so important, the others really fall away, and you have the denial of all gods but the one.

只有一个受尊崇，最终变得极为重要，其他的渐渐衰退，你否定了所有的神灵，唯独肯定一个。

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It's contracting so the Fed is trying to prevent a serious recession by cutting interest rates; they've been cutting them rapidly.

它在减小,所以美联储正在试图阻止一个因为利率缩减,而产生的严重的经济衰退；,但是他们最近一直在降低利率。

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