It dropped precipitously in the '90s and through the 2000s.

从90年代到本世纪初，犯罪率大幅下降。

Broader stockmarket indices fell, but not precipitously.

更广泛的股市指数下降，但并非陡然下跌。

And above that, it decreases precipitously.

若数值，存活率会下降。

The cost of both producing and reading DNA is falling precipitously.

产生和读取DNA的成本都在下降。

But rosewood stocks have fallen precipitously in recent years as illegal logging has run rampant.

但近年来由非法砍伐极度猖獗，导致紫檀木数量锐减。

And if we left precipitously right now, I do not believe they would be able to successfully defend their country.

如果我们现在突然撤军，我认为他们不能成功地保卫自已的国家。

This gap would probably widen precipitously in the event of a default.

如果发生违约，这种差距可能会扩大。

He spent the next five days here, with his situation deteriorating precipitously.

接下来的五天里，他的处恶化。

As Lenin’s health declined precipitously in the early 1920s thoughts inevitably turned

20 世纪 20 年代初，随着列宁的健康状况恶化，人们的思想不可避免地发生了转变。

Then, in April, as Russia turned from Kyiv to the Donbas, the volume of wiper attacks dropped precipitously.

然后，在 4 月，随着俄罗斯从基辅转向顿巴斯，雨刮器攻击的数量下降。

By the time a black man reaches middle age, the chance of a fatal police encounter drops precipitously but remains disproportionately high.

当黑人男性到达中年时，与警察的致命碰撞的机会下降，但比例仍然很。

The unemployment rate has dropped precipitously since the worst of the pandemic, and wages rose a rapid 5.7 percent in the year through January.

自疫情最严重以来，失业率下降，工资在截至1月份的一年里快速上涨了5.7%。

State subsidies for public colleges and universities have declined precipitously, and state funding represents an increasingly small share of the budget at public research universities.

各州对公立大学和大学的补贴下降，公立研究型大学的拨款在州财政预算中所占比例越来越小。

Surprisingly tiger attacks dropped precipitously after villagers literally grew eyes on the back of their heads, despite the fact that by now the tigers must have known that humans make for very easy prey.

令人惊讶的是， 在村民们真的在他们的后脑勺上长出了眼睛之后， 老虎的攻击下降，尽管事实上老虎现在一定知道人类是非常容易捕食的猎物。