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

• 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。
• That's because most past recessions have been caused by tight monetary policy.
  原因是，过去经济萎缩源于紧缩性货币政策；
• 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。
• We are in one of the most severe recessions in modern times
  我们正在经历现代最严重的一段经济衰退。
• 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。
• 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。
• Many companies cut graduate schemes in previous recessions and lived to regret it.
  在以往的衰退中，许多压缩了毕业生招聘计划的企业后来都很后悔。
• The variation between households was far greater than the difference between booms and recessions.
  家庭与家庭之间的差异，远大于繁荣期和衰退期之间的差异。
• But there are get-out clauses for recessions or national crises.
  不过修正案也设立了豁免条款以应对经济衰退或国家危机。
• 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。