Despite lower gas prices and lower unemployment recently, retail sales have lagged.

尽管最近油价降低, 失业率低迷造成零售业销售滞后。

Attrition rates for women who had babies plunged by 50%.

生育完孩子女性员工流失率降低了一半。

And if you're not, scale it back a bit.

如果没成功话，那就把标准降低一点。

Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption.

能源储备、燃料替代以及能源密集型工业要性降低，都减少了石油消耗量。

That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels.

这确有其事，因为理论告诉我们如果一个渔场总储量如果连起初最大可承受捕鱼量50％都不到，就应该降低捕鱼数量了。

More debt, lower wages and less likelihood of owning their own homes.

债务变了、薪资降低了、拥有自己小窝可能性降低了。

No one disputes the costs in quality of life and depleted health budgets of an obese population, but the quest for solutions gets diverted by ideological arguments around responsibility and choice.

公认是，肥胖人口会降低生活质量及耗尽卫生预算，但解决方案寻找却被围绕责任和选择意识形态争论所转移。

And not even the subzero temperature manages to dampen the party atmosphere.

即使是零下气温也无法降低聚会气氛。

The discovery of artemisinin has helped significantly reduce the mortality rates of malaria patients.

青蒿素发现极大地降低了疟疾患者死亡率。

Also, we will be driving down the costs.

同样，我们将降低费用。

Absenteeism and lateness hurt productivity and, since work was specialized, disrupted the regular factory routine.

既然工厂生产已经专业化，旷工与迟到就会降低劳动生产率，也会影响工厂正常运转。

Cattle losses have increased with the wolf population.

随着狼群数量增长，牛群数量呈现降低。

And by the way that sample was slowed down by half, and lowered an octave.

顺便说一下，采集到声音样本经过了处理——速度减半，音调也降低了一个八度。

Officials blamed marsh fire smoke combined with dense fog that sharply cut visibility.

官员们将其归咎于沼泽大火引发烟雾，这些浓雾严降低了能见度。

But as jobs increased, the average hourly wage in America declined.

然而就业机会增多，导致美国平均时薪降低。

People lose productivity when they spend all day shivering or sweating.

人们整天发抖打颤或出汗都会导致工作效率降低。

And at this point, neither country is backing down on the tariffs.

到目前为止，两国都没有降低关税。

That will lead to less ticks infected which will lead to less human's infected.

这将使越来越少壁虱被感染，从而降低人类被感染概率。

They found hydrogen sulphide levels decreased in 80% of participants.

他们发现受试者口腔内硫化氢含量降低了80%。

As far as businesses go, the proposal would reduce the corporate tax rate, which is a tax on their profits.

在企业方面，这项法案还会降低企业税，也就是企业就其利润所纳税。