英汉词典

1.Struggling with an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times intends to introduce a "metered" model at the beginning of 2011.

为了应对广告的减少和街角销售的下滑，《纽约时报》打算在2011年初引进一种“计量”模型。

2.A Colombian who wants someone to approach him often signals with a hand movement in which all the fingers of one hand, cupped, point downward as they move rapidly back and forth.

一个哥伦比亚人想要别人靠近他时，他通常会用一个手势，一只手的所有手指都呈杯状，指向下方，同时快速地前后移动。

3.It is not unusual for the roots of some desert perennials to extend downward more than ten meters.

一些沙漠多年生植物的根向下延伸十米以上，这并不少见。

4.He swam quartering upstream, but still was swept downward rather faster than he had expected.

他向上游游去，但还是被水冲了下去，流速比他预料的要快得多。

5.The sun, is also variable over a long term: its heat output goes up and down in cycles, the latest trend being downward.

太阳在长期内也是变化的：它的热量输出在周期中有上升，也有下降，最近的趋势是下降。

6.Inflation is moving firmly downward.

通货膨胀在稳步下降。

7.A Colombian who wants someone to approach him often signals with a hand movement in which all the fingers of one hand, cupped, point downward as they move rapidly back and forth.

一个哥伦比亚人想要别人靠近他时，他通常会用一个手势，一只手的所有手指都呈杯状，指向下方，同时快速地前后移动。

8.Young men's wages (after adjusting for inflation) have been on a downward trajectory since 1970 and fell significantly from 2000 to 2010.

自1970年以来，年轻人经通胀调整后的工资一直处于下降趋势，在2000年到2010年大幅下降。

9.He works backward, building a house from the top downward.

他倒着干活，从上往下盖房子。