recessions

英 [rɪˈsɛʃənz]

美 [rɪˈsɛʃənz]

n.  经济衰退; 经济萎缩; 退后; 撤回
recession的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-VAR 经济衰退；经济不景气
  Arecessionis a period when the economy of a country is doing badly, for example because industry is producing less and more people are becoming unemployed.
  1. The recession caused sales to drop off...
     经济不景气使销量下降。
  2. We should concentrate on sharply reducing interest rates to pull the economy out of recession...
     我们应该着力大幅下调利率以使经济走出衰退。
  3. The oil price increases sent Europe into deep recession.
     油价上涨使欧洲陷入严重的经济衰退。

双语例句

• The2001 and1990-91 recessions both ran eight months, followed by years of economic fallout.
  而2001年和1990-91年经济衰退的持续时间都是8个月，但衰退造成的后续影响却持续了好几年。
• First, comparisons between today and the deep recessions of the early 1980s are utterly misguided.
  首先，拿当前这场衰退与上世纪80年代初的深度萧条做比较，完全是受到了误导。
• Economists like to joke that Wall Street has predicted nine out of the last five recessions.
  经济学家们喜欢说的一个笑话是：华尔街预言了最近五次经济衰退中的九次。
• Some have said that, intellectually, recessions are exciting or fun.
  有些人说，理性地讲，经济衰退充满刺激和趣味。
• Economists, it is said, have predicted eight of the past three recessions.
  据说，经济学家已经预测到了过去3次衰退中的8次。
• The investment bank has come up with an interesting rule of thumb on recessions.
  关于经济衰退，这家投资银行提出了一个有趣的经验法则。
• We are in the midst of one of the worst recessions for many, many years.
  我们正处在多年来最严重的一次经济衰退之中。
• The recessions of the early 1980s and the 1990s played similar roles.
  上世纪80年代初和90年代的衰退也起到了类似的作用。
• Some issues are more important than recessions and elections.
  有些问题比经济衰退和选举更重要。
• But they were insufficient, even with monetary support, to prevent deep recessions.
  但即便拥有货币政策的支持，这些需求也不足以防止经济陷入深度衰退。