declining

基本解释

The prices are declining.
价格下降。
《新英汉大辞典》
The Secretary also assumes that all this can be done with flat or declining budgets.
国防部长还假设，所有这一切都可以做到而且保持预算持平或下降。
It shows the index declining steadily from a peak in early 2009, with just a brief pause during the summer of 2010.
它显示本指数从2009年早期的巅峰值稳步下降，其中仅在2010年夏天的时候以一个短暂的停顿。

She gathered studies that showed the harmful effects of DDT, including declining bird populations and increased human cancers.
So in the time of declining resources, we might look what we were doing with what we get in return for it.
在资源逐渐枯竭的时刻，倒是可以看看我们的付出到底得到了什么。
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is when you're declining to offer something.
这就是当你拒绝主动为他人做某事的时候。
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Result: Only individuals can now buy without an immediate write down in declining markets.
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If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
If you decline something or decline to do something, you politely refuse to accept it or do it.
If there is a decline in something, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or quality.
If something is in decline or on the decline, it is gradually decreasing in importance, quality, or power.
If something goes or falls into decline, it begins to gradually decrease in importance, quality, or power.

衰败
Three types of poverty neighbourhood are emerging:old and dilapidated inner city neighbourhood,declining workers’ village and urban village.
同时,中国城市出现了三种类型的贫困邻里:老城区衰败邻里、表落的单位大院、城中村。
历史学
衰落
Now, the research of declining city has been considered by some scholars and obtained a contain achievement.
目前，有关衰落城市问题的研究已引起了部分学者的关注，也取得了一定的阶段性成果，但迄今为止，尚缺乏对这一问题的深入而系统的研究。
文学
沦歇
In a word, either the forming of Wuzhong literati or their literary style reflected a process of developing and declining.
总之，无论是从群落之构成，还是文学风格之消长，都反映出吴中文学有一个发生、发展和沦歇的过程。
商业
下滑的