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recession n.撤回,退回,退后,工商业之衰退,不景气 Recession comes from the Latin word recessus, meaning "a going back, retreat." Think of all the things that get made and sold in a country. When fewer people buy things, orders for them slow down. The sales "go back" to a lower amount. This is an economic recession. This noun can also describe other kinds of "going back," like the recession of floodwaters that enable people to begin cleaning up their homes that had been filled with water. ★★★★☆ 2009.3

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[ri'seʃ(ə)n] Jobs being cut? Houses not selling? Everyone talking about the poor sales of everything from cars to bouquets of flowers? That's a recession, a time of economic decline. Not long ago, with the country entering a recession and Japan at its pre-bubble peak, the U.S. workforce was derided as poorly educated and one of primary cause of the poor U.S. economic performance. 1[N-VAR 可变名词]经济衰退；经济不景气 A recession is a period when the economy of a country is doing badly, for example because industry is producing less and more people are becoming unemployed. The recession caused sales to drop off...经济不景气使销量下降。We should concentrate on sharply reducing interest rates to pull the economy out of recession...我们应该着力大幅下调利率以使经济走出衰退。The oil price increases sent Europe into deep recession.油价上涨使欧洲陷入严重的经济衰退。

英语单词	recession
英美音标	[ri'seʃ(ə)n]
中文释义	n.撤回,退回,退后,工商业之衰退,不景气
vocab简明	Jobs being cut? Houses not selling? Everyone talking about the poor sales of everything from cars to bouquets of flowers? That's a recession, a time of economic decline.
vocab扩展	Recession comes from the Latin word recessus, meaning "a going back, retreat." Think of all the things that get made and sold in a country. When fewer people buy things, orders for them slow down. The sales "go back" to a lower amount. This is an economic recession. This noun can also describe other kinds of "going back," like the recession of floodwaters that enable people to begin cleaning up their homes that had been filled with water.
真题原句	Not long ago, with the country entering a *recession* and Japan at its pre-bubble peak, the U.S. workforce was derided as poorly educated and one of primary cause of the poor U.S. economic performance.
柯林斯星级	★★★★☆
柯林斯解释	1 [N-VAR 可变名词]经济衰退；经济不景气 A recession is a period when the economy of a country is doing badly, for example because industry is producing less and more people are becoming unemployed. The recession caused sales to drop off... 经济不景气使销量下降。 We should concentrate on sharply reducing interest rates to pull the economy out of recession... 我们应该着力大幅下调利率以使经济走出衰退。 The oil price increases sent Europe into deep recession. 油价上涨使欧洲陷入严重的经济衰退。
来源	2009.3

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