downturn: 衰退
[ 2005-08-18 09:44 ]
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據報道，由于倫敦七月發生的恐怖襲擊事件，倫敦市中心的百貨商店和其它零售商店損失了14億美元的銷售收入。賓館、飯店和其它行業的收入也遭受了重大損失。外電報道說：
Economists working for the Mayor of London forecast last month's deadly
attacks will cost the city's economy up to 300 million pounds (540 million
dollars, 440 million euros), a newspaper said.
But the Financial
Times added that the predicted economic loss of between 200 and 300
million pounds was far short of the 600-million-pound slump in business
suffered by London before, during and immediately after the Iraq war.
"Six weeks after the July 7 attacks killed 56 people, including four
suicide bombers, the Greater London Authority (GLA) accepts there has been
some downturn," the economic daily reported.
句中的 "downturn" means a reduction in the amount or success of something,
such as a country's economic activity"（尤指經濟方面的）衰退；下降趨勢"。如：There is a
evidence of downturn in the building trade/house
prices.（有證據表明建筑業/房價有下降趨勢。）
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