precipitously
英
美
网络 陡峭地; 陡然地; 险峻地
BNC.44572 / COCA.18242
英英释义
adv
- abruptly
- the mountains rose precipitously from the shore
- very suddenly and to a great degree
- conditions that precipitously increase the birthrate
- prices rose sharply
双语例句
- He held his hand out in the air, plotting an imaginary line that dropped precipitously to his knees.
他伸出一只手,在空中划出的假想曲线最低处快触及了他的膝盖。 - Central bankers may then be forced to tighten [ monetary policy] precipitously, eventually driving consumers and firms to cut back on spending.
到时候各国央行可能被迫陡然收紧(货币政策),最终促使消费者和企业缩减开支。 - Mr gross warns of yields on mortgage bonds rising precipitously if support is withdrawn but the European experience suggests that mortgages at reasonable rates are not merely an American exception.
格罗斯警告称,一旦支持撤销,抵押贷款债券的收益率就会陡然上升,但欧洲的经验表明,利率合理的抵押贷款并不只是美国特有的现象。 - Our new study found, unfortunately, that regime shifts with potentially large consequences can happen without warning& systems can 'tip' precipitously.
可惜,我们新的研究发现,可造成严重后果的生态状况突变可能会在没有预兆的情况发生&系统可能突然坍塌。 - Currencies have dropped against the dollar and the yen, some precipitously.
外围国家货币兑美元和日元汇率下跌,一些币种跌幅陡峭。 - But because import demand, capital flows and the need for foreign workers declined precipitously in the West, almost all developing countries are suffering.
但由于西方的进口需求、资金流动和外国员工的需求大幅度下降,几乎所有发展中国家都在受挫。 - The complexity rises precipitously after that.
之后复杂性会急剧上升。 - These funds are going to have the ability to buy any global company, to create panic in markets if they move too precipitously, even to dwarf the political clout of international financial institutions.
这些基金将有能力收购任何一家全球性公司,如果它们过于轻率行事,可能会造成市场的恐慌,甚至可能削弱国际金融机构的政治影响力。 - Europe has witnessed bigger drops in the employment-to-population ratio, which fell precipitously in Germany and Italy in the 1970s and in France in the 1980s and 1990s. Were those declines also caused by wage misalignments?
欧洲的就业人口比率曾出现更大幅度下滑,比如上世纪70年代在德国和意大利,八、九十年代在法国,就业率都出现了大幅下滑。这些下滑是否也是薪资不合理引起的? - Should it refuse, as likely, Greece would be forced into an exit and it would have to close its external deficit precipitously.
如果欧洲央行拒绝这么做(可能性很大),希腊就将被迫退出欧元区,并且将不得不仓促结束外部赤字。