英汉词典

1.That sounds pretty terrible, but the loss of life has decreased by a factor of 10 simply because we are getting better at warning people.

这听起来很可怕，但死亡人数已经减少了十倍，这仅仅是因为我们的预防工作做得越来越好了。

2.The price of wheat has decreased by 15%.

小麦价格降低了15%。

3.While Spain as a whole is heating up quickly, temperatures near the greenhouses have decreased.

尽管整个西班牙的气温迅速上升，但温室附近的气温却下降了。

4.In the past, every ten-percentage-point increase in cigarette prices in the country of Coponia has decreased per capita sales of cigarettes by four percent.

过去，科普尼亚的香烟价格每上涨10个百分点，人均香烟销量就会下降4%。

5.The combination of hot weather and decreased water supplies is hurting many industries.

天气炎热和供水减少这两个因素结合在一起对很多行业造成了损害。

6.Frank Arroyo said that his rental business has decreased by 90% since Citi Bike was rolled out last month.

弗兰克·阿罗约说，自从上个月花旗集团推出自行车以来，他的租赁业务已经减少了90%。

7.Between 1990 and 1998, road haulage increased by 19.4%, while during the same period rail haulage decreased by 43.5%.

在1990年到1998年间，公路运输增加了19.4%，而同期铁路货运量下降了43.5%。

8.Our present understanding of the Sun's luminosity holds that it should have progressively increased, not decreased, over the course of Earth's history.

当前我们对太阳光度的认知是：在地球的历史进程上，太阳光度应该是逐渐增加而不是减少的。