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1 The top end of the art market has performed strongly in recent years despite the downturn in the global economy.

2 But Gingrich and his allies never forgave him, and when the economic downturn began in 1991, Bush was left with few allies.

3 City Opera’s decline resulted from years of deficits, the economic downturn, leadership turmoil, overly optimistic fund-raising goals, poor attendance and the drastic shrinking of its endowment, much of which was used to cover budget shortfalls.

4 There aren’t many established artists writing about politics and the economic downturn.

5 Britain’s economy is stagnant, the international art market is in a downturn and the wider world is weighed down with ongoing geopolitical crises in the Middle East, Ukraine and beyond.

6 There is plenty of resentment for the wealthiest Americans, who have coasted through the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression without a tax increase or a dip in lifestyle.

7 With an apparently unlimited budget, Mr. Zraly put together a world-class list, taking advantage of an economic downturn in Europe to buy up great wines at paltry prices.

8 “Before the downturn hit, very substantial pieces of downtown had been redeveloped,” says Gary Sasso, president of the legal services outfit Carlton Fields and former chairman of the Tampa Bay Partnership.

9 The idea for the book came from Smith feeling deeply troubled by worldwide struggles - everything from the economic downturn to the earthquake in Haiti.

10 The downturn has also confirmed that the continental model has some strengths.

经济衰退也确认欧洲大陆国家的模式具有更多的优点.

11 The museum had mounted well-attended exhibitions on Modigliani, the Dutch Golden Age, and traditional Incan metalwork before its recent downturn.

12 Before the downturn, Walter says, he might have been able to sell his house and use the profit to pay off the loans.

13 A: The economic downturn is hitting public libraries hard — but it's hitting a lot of people and institutions hard, so we're not alone.

14 The economic downturn also contributed to the decision to close the Isle of Wight factory.

经济衰退也是公司下定决心关闭怀特岛工厂的原因之一.

15 "Hide the decline", the most famous phrase in the East Anglian emails, becomes "bury the downturn" in the Hampshire version.

16 Photograph: C4 Despite the economic downturn, fried chicken outlets are booming on the high street, with ingeniously subtle variations on the Colonel Sanders franchise abounding.

17 But the efforts to cushion the worst social effects of an economic downturn have paid off.

但是缓冲经济衰退最严重社会影响的努力收到了成效.

18 The 2008 economic downturn was also a challenge, as membership rolls thinned.

19 Similar outbursts of techno-pessimism pop up every time the economy takes a downturn or machines make a paradigm leap.

20 Q. You were writing around the time of the economic downturn.

1 向下

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2 衰退

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3 不景气趋势

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7 下降趋势

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8 下翻

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9 下转

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11 衰退期

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