recession

英 [rɪˈseʃn]

美 [rɪˈseʃn]

n.  经济衰退; 经济萎缩; 退后; 撤回

复数：recessions　

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牛津词典

noun

• 经济衰退；经济萎缩
  a difficult time for the economy of a country, when there is less trade and industrial activity than usual and more people are unemployed
  1. the impact of the current recession on manufacturing
     时下经济萎缩对制造业的影响
  2. The economy is in deep recession .
     经济正处于严重的衰退之中。
  3. policies to pull the country out of recession
     引导国家走出经济萎缩的政策
• 退后；撤回
  the movement backwards of sth from a previous position
  1. the gradual recession of the floodwater
     洪水的渐渐消退

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。

英英释义

noun

• the act of becoming more distant
  Synonym:receding
• the act of ceding back
  Synonym:ceding back
• the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service
  Synonym:recessional
• a small concavity
  Synonym:recessnichecorner
• the state of the economy declines

双语例句

• The recent deterioration has been caused by an apparently endless recession
  看似永无止境的经济衰退导致了最近的恶化。
• The country had come through the worst of the recession.
  该国已经度过了经济衰退最糟糕的时期。
• Predictions that the recession will be short are small comfort to those already affected
  关于经济衰退不会延续很长时间的预测对那些已经受到影响的人来说只是小小的安慰。
• Never before has the industry had to cope with war and recession at the same time
  这个行业以前从未有过必须同时应付战争和萧条的经历。
• The only way to purge the economy of this new burst of inflation is a short, sharp recession.
  要消除新爆发的这次通货膨胀，唯一的方法是让经济短期内急剧衰退。
• They had not foreseen the higher inflation in France when most of Western Europe was crawling out of recession
  当西欧的大多数国家正从经济衰退中缓慢复苏时，他们并没有预见到法国的通货膨胀率会升高。
• The recession caused sales to drop off
  经济不景气使销量下降。
• What we want to see today are policies to pull us out of this recession.
  目前我们想看到的是能使我们走出这次经济衰退的政策。
• I will not take issue with the fact that we have a recession.
  我不否认经济衰退的事实。
• His troubles predated the recession
  他的问题在经济萧条前就出现了。