precipitously
The mountain path descended precipitously to a small valley.
这条山间小道急转直下，通到一个小山谷。
The dollar plunged precipitously.
美元直线下跌。
We don't want to act precipitously.
我们不想仓促行事。
Then the flows will drop off precipitously.
随后汇款将急剧减少。
The land dropped precipitously down to the rocky shore.
地面陡降，下方是布满岩石的岸边。
Tuna stocks are declining precipitously due to overfishing.
由于过度捕捞，吞拿鱼库存量骤然下降。
Performance drops off precipitously when requests are queued.
当请求排队时，性能会急剧下降。
In the east, the mountains descend precipitously to the Pacific.
东部山脉陡峭，濒临太平洋。
However, in the playoffs, their winning percentage has fallen precipitously.
可是，到了季后赛，他们的胜率却突然下滑。
All currencies fell against the dollar and the yen, some of them precipitously.
而金融系统本身存在缺陷这一事实促使人们开始怀疑这一理论。
Spending on consumer durable goods like autos dropped precipitously in 1930.
1930年，类似汽车这样的耐用消费品支出急剧下跌。
And because exercise can cause blood-sugar levels to drop precipitously, athletes with Type 1 face special challenges.
而且运动会导致血糖水平急剧下降，患1型糖尿病的运动员面临更大的挑战。
His own research suggests that testosterone levels drop precipitously in men with BMIs of 40 and higher.
他本人开展的研究表明，BMI大于40的男性其睾酮水平急剧下降。
Another danger is hyponatremia, in which sodium levels fall precipitously -- but that's also rare in healthy people.
其它研究则发现，饮水越多，出现具有癌症前期特征的结肠息肉的机率就越小。
The decline is much slower than in women, in whom oestrogen levels drop precipitously when they reach the menopause.
这种下降幅度在女人身上比较缓慢。她们雌激素水平在绝经期时会突然下降。
The meal over, the guests rush away.They rush away precipitously, as if they feared a plague.
饭一吃完客人们便匆匆忙忙走了，他们仓皇逃走，仿佛怕瘟疫降临。
I believe that if we were precipitously to withdraw from Baghdad at this point, there would be a dramatic increase in sectarian violence.
我认为在此时急速从巴格达撤军,将会引发更加激烈的宗教冲突和暴力升级。
As a result, this has given them a special power in U.S. political thought that still endures, even while their numbers have dwindled precipitously.
这就使美国农民在美国的政治思想中具有一种特殊的份量，直到今天仍然如此，即使他们的人数已经大大减少了。
Since the human genome was sequenced six years ago, the cost of producing a high-quality genome sequence has dropped precipitously.
从六年前人类基因组测序的完成，高品质的基因组测序结果的花费已经明显降低。
Only when customer service and product quality fall substantially below those of competitors will the company's market share fall precipitously.
只有当企业的客户服务和产品质量严重下滑，并低于那些竞争对手时，公司的市场占有率才急速下降。
"I believe that if we were precipitously to withdraw from Baghdad at this point, there would be a dramatic increase in sectarian violence.
“我认为如果我们在这个时间点上急躁地从巴格达撤军的话，伊拉克的宗派暴力活动将急剧增加。”
Yes, the percentage of advertising revenue that drives profit has slipped precipitously and no one expects a return to the golden years.
是的，广告收入的比例促进了利润急剧下降，没有人希望回到黄金时代。
The death toll from the initial quake has been rising precipitously, and Chinese officials say the final tally could exceed 80,000.
5月12日大地震造成的死亡人数在迅速上升，中国官员们说，最终的统计数字可能会超过8万人
But the researchers discovered that if they grew the fungus in a fermenter or on a liquid diet, the production of the toxins fell precipitously.
但是，研究者们发现，如果他们在发酵池中或者液体培养液中种植这种真菌的话，这种真菌所产生的毒素会大量下降。
Similarly, the stock market is quickly sceptical of companies planning acquisitive growth strategies, and the value of the acquirer's shares normally drops precipitously.
同样地，股市很快会怀疑公司收购式的增长战略，收购方的股票价值通常会急速下跌。
While $2,000 handbags and $700 stiletto heels are still expensive for most people, if prices drop precipitously, the perception of a label's value may also drop.
尽管2,000美元一只的手袋和700美元一双的细高跟鞋对大部分人而言非常昂贵，但如果价格大幅下降，人们对品牌价值的感觉也会大打折扣。
While about 80 percent of parents use the MPAA's ratings system, the number drops precipitously for TV ratings, where as few as 39 percent of parents said they used them.
尽管80%的家长使用MPAA的分级系统，这一数字在电视分级上急剧下降，只有39%的家长表示他们使用这一系统。
This does not necessarilly imply that methanol prices will fall precipitously, as industry cost supports are increasing, and methanol has become generally more affordable.
但这不一定就暗示着甲醇价格会急剧下降，因为工业成本支出在增加，甲醇已变得普遍更能买得起。
"Shanghai property is a disaster waiting to happen - prices could fall precipitously in the coming months," says Andy Xie, Morgan Stanley's Hong Kong-based economist.
香港摩根士丹利的经济学家谢国忠（AndyXie）说：“上海房地产危机迟早会到来，未来几个月房价可能出现暴跌。”
With convergence, even if futures market prices fall precipitously in the delivery month, there are still economic signals being sent to which producers can respond.
在有重叠的情况下，即使期货价格在交货当月大幅下降，市场也会传出一些经济信号，生产者可据此做出反应”。
Mechanical evaluation of optimized flexible shaft shows that the optimized scheme can precipitously decrease the entire stress-level and thus improve its working life.
计算结果表明,优化方案可大幅度降低挠性轴的整体应力水平。
By every objective standard, China's freedoms of expression, press, assembly, religion, labor organization, were greater in April 1989 and have declined precipitously since.
以任何一个客观的标准来衡量的话，中国表达、出版、机会、宗教信仰、劳工组织的自由都要比1989年8月的时候宽松的多，而这些自由自那次风波以后陡降了很 多。
But because import demand, capital flows and the need for foreign workers declined precipitously in the West, almost all developing countries are suffering.
但是由于西方各经济体的进口需求、资本流动和对外来劳工的需求急剧减少，几乎所有的发展中国家都未能幸免。
But temperatures dropped precipitously in the so-called Little Ice Age, which began in the 16th century, the Norse settlers died out and agriculture was no longer possible.
不过，16世纪所谓的小冰河时期开始后，气温骤然下降，这些古代北欧人全部丧生，农业也无以为继。
Even when Coke's earnings and stock price dropped precipitously last year in the wake of economic turmoil abroad,Ivester kept the company focused on shoring up its marketing and infrastructure for the long term.
尽管去年可口可乐公司的营业收入和股票价格因国外经济动荡的到来之际而大跌，依万斯特着重支持公司的市场推广和长期合作的客户关系。
The bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki ended the war months earlier than almost anyone had predicted and propelled the nation precipitously into a process of re-conversion.
摧毁广岛与长崎的两枚炸弹，超出几乎任何人的预测，提前几个月结束了战争并突如其来地美国推向战后恢复状态。
The 3~(rd) depression of Ordos basin came about under the Yanshan movement after the Trias Jura & Jurassic and the center gradually move to the west, which lead to a huge anisomerous syncline of widely slow eastern side and precipitously narrow west.
鄂尔多斯盆地在燕山运动作用下使区内发生了自三叠系和侏罗系后的第三次拗陷,沉降中心不断西移,形成一个东翼宽缓、西翼陡窄的不对称巨型台向斜。
Though the absolute number of students signing up to take the examination is increasing, the rate of increase dropped precipitously this year compared with last year, according to data provided by the Ministry of Education.
据教育部的有关数据显示，尽管今年的绝对报考人数仍有增加，但与去年相比，增幅有明显下降。
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia's oil production fell precipitously, reaching a low of roughly 6 million bbl/d, or around one-half of the Soviet-era peak (see Fig. 1).
1991年前苏联解体后，俄罗斯的石油产量急剧下降，达到了约600桶/天的低谷，这几乎只是前苏联时代峰值的一半(见图1)。
Less widely known is that this global dipole has been diminishing precipitously for the past 150 years and at this rate could disappear entirely sometime early in the next millennium.
但鲜为人知的是，磁偶极所产生的磁场，在过去150年内强度已急速减弱，若以这样的衰减速率来估算，地球磁场再过1000年就会彻底消失。
The big difference between now and then, though, was that prices were falling precipitously in the late summer and fall of 2006 after hitting a then-record high of nearly $77 a barrel in July.
不过，当时与眼下的一个很大的不同之处是，油价在2006年7月创下接近每桶77美元的高点后，到夏末和秋季便经历了大幅下跌。
But being older parents has its drawbacks, too.While I had no trouble getting pregnant with my son, I'm well aware that fertility drops precipitously for many women as they hit their late 30s and 40s.
还有一个好处是，作为一对晚育父母，我们周围已经有一大堆亲戚朋友生了孩子，可以向他们学习很多知识，不至于在自己为人父母时感到手足无措或者焦虑不安。
Perched precipitously on the edge of the cliff
位于峭壁上的.
the mountains rose precipitously from the shore.
山脉靠近海岸的那一面很陡峭。
The coastal mountains descended precipitously to the very edge of the Pacific
沿海的山脉陡峭地向着太平洋岸边延伸而下。
conditions that precipitously increase the birthrate; prices rose sharply
突然提高出生率的条件；物价急剧上涨
conditions that precipitously increase the birthrate; prices rose sharply.
突然提高出生率的条件；物价急剧上涨。
” He held his hand out in the air, plotting an imaginary line that dropped precipitously to his knees.
他伸出一只手，在空中划出的假想曲线最低处快触及了他的膝盖。
” Cut that price in half, and sales will spike, dealers claim, but there is little prospect that battery costs will drop precipitously anytime soon.
经销商宣称，要是价钱可以减半，销售量就会激增，但是电池成本不太可能短期之内突然下跌。
precipitously ad.
仓促地;