A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline.

世界上很多地区才刚刚走出经济衰。

Question 14. What is the historical cause of the decline in the American Indian Languages?

美国印第安语言衰历史根源是什么？

Then there is France, where couples looked at the economic slump and shrugged.

然后在法国，夫妻们看着经济衰，也表示无奈。

And they weren't sweet, which is a huge oversight that arguably contributed to Greece's downfall.

而且它们并不甜，这是一个巨大疏忽，可以说是希腊华夫饼衰原因之一。

So if retail isn't dying, it's actually doing well.

所以零售业没有衰话，它们实际上发展得很不错了。

Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return?

过去经济衰日子会不会重来？

It declined seriously and has never fully recovered even in the current coffee boom.

它严重衰，甚至在当前咖啡热潮中也从未完全恢复。

London, in the time of COVID-19 is a much diminished city.

疫情期间，伦敦成为一个大为衰城市。

This small island experienced the fall of a very special culture.

这个小岛经历了一种非常特殊文化衰。

During the period it was without water, it was a system in decline.

在没有水时期，它是一个衰统。

He witnessed the decline of traditional Scottish culture in favor of English norms.

他目睹了苏格兰传统文化衰，人们转而支持英式传统。

The truth of the library's rise and fall is much more complex.

其实，图书馆崛起和衰真相更为复杂。

This is an explosive situation for any industry, particularly a declining one.

这对任何一个工业产业来说都算是爆炸性形势，对于一个正在衰行业来说尤其如此。

Railways mostly carried coal and steel, and when those industries declined they were cut back.

铁路大多被用来运输煤和钢铁，当这些工业衰后它们运输量也削减了。

Far from fading away, Big Tobacco might be on the verge of a new boom.

大烟草不仅不会衰，甚至可能会迎来繁荣。

But though the pandemic accelerated the decline of hammams, it began much earlier.

但是，尽管疫情加速了公共浴场衰，但它衰其实很早就开始了。

The third measure of the sun's decline is in its outer atmosphere, the corona.

太阳衰标准就是其外层气体日冕。

However, by 900 BC, many Maya cities were abandoned, calling an end to the empire.

然而，及至公元前 900 年，许多玛雅城市被遗弃，玛雅帝国逐渐衰。

But the Ottoman Empire eventually entered into a long period of gradual decline.

但奥斯曼帝国最终进入了一个漫长逐渐衰时期。

But it diminished slowly over time due to overcrowding and crime.

但由于过度拥挤和犯罪，随着时间推移，它逐渐衰。