It said most of those still had jobs due to "labour hoarding" , jargon for a reluctance to sack staff during downturns .

该部门表示，由于“劳动力囤积”，大多数此类人群仍拥有工作——“劳动力囤积”是一个用来形容企业在经济低迷时期不愿裁人的术语。

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Whether downturns on balance help or hurt entrepreneurs depends therefore on the relative strength of these opposing sets of forces.

归根结底，经济衰退对企业家的利弊得失取决于这些相反力量的强弱对比。

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In past downturns , the resilience of consumer spending has saved the day.

过去经济差的时候，弹性的消费能力拯救了经济。

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During past downturns in what has always been a highly cyclical industry, the planemakers have suffered along with their customers.

航空业一直高速循环发展着，在上次的低迷时期，这两家公司已经同他们的顾客共同遭受了打击。

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Few economists would blame either the Bush or Obama administrations for running some degree of budget deficit during economic downturns .

很少有经济学家会因为在经济不景气时期增加政府财政赤字而指责布什或者奥巴马当局。

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Production is being curtailed more rapidly than in previous downturns , ’’ Citigroup said. ``Supply cuts will stabilize prices.

花旗集团表示，“减产的速度高于以往，供应量减少将稳定价格。”

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With respect to both monetary and fiscal policy, tightening in the cyclical upturns never matched the vigour of the easing in the downturns .

货币与财政政策在上升周期中的收紧，从来赶不上低迷时期放松的劲头。

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Even during the worst of times, efficient diversification and portfolio construction can immunise investors from downturns .

即便在最糟糕的时期，有效的多样化和投资组合构建可以使投资者免受市场低迷的影响。

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Regulators can lower capital ratios during downturns and raise them during good economic times.

监管者可以在经济低迷时下调资本充足率，在经济景气时提高资本充足率。

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She has experienced many downturns , but fears this one is untenable for workers and leaders alike.

她经历过许多次经济下滑，但她担心这次下滑对员工和领导来说，都很难挺过去。

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In past downturns , she said, companies ’would go into the misery zone’ before laying off workers.

她说，在过去历次经济低迷时，企业都是在万不得已的时候才开始裁员。

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The country’s subsequent growth this year has allowed it to skirt technical recession as measured by two consecutive quarterly downturns .

今年随后出现的增长，使其避免了技术性衰退，即连续两个季度出现萎缩。

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While some kept plants working through past downturns , most are now reluctant to push unwanted vehicles on to dealership forecourts.

尽管在以往的低迷时期，有些汽车制造商继续维持工厂的运转，但目前大多数制造商不愿把没人要的汽车卖给经销商。

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For nearly 30 years, Taylor points out, the few downturns the U. S. has suffered have, in historical terms, been both short and shallow.

近30年来，泰勒指出，从历史的观点来看美国遭受的少数衰退都是短暂而轻微的。

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Suicide increase linked to economic downturns

经济衰退造成自杀率升高

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Under such harsh economic downturns , working class can hardly make ends meet.

经济下滑这么厉害，工薪阶层快要揭不开锅了。

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U. S. small-company stocks, which tend to perform well coming out of economic downturns , earned higher marks than three months ago.

经济走出疲态时，美国小型股通常会表现出色；基金经理目前对这类股票的看法要好于3个月前。

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Big budget holes have opened because of deep economic downturns : revenues tumbled while payments to the unemployed increased.

巨大预算漏洞的出现是因为严重的经济衰退：财政收入因为对失业者的转移支付而减少。

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Economic downturns , Mr. Keynes and Mr. Samuelson taught us, occur when the aggregate demand for goods and services is insufficient.

凯恩斯和萨缪尔森告诉我们，经济衰退发生于商品和服务的总需求不足。

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History suggests downturns in that market last for years, rather than months.

历史提醒我们，商业房产市场的低迷时期将通常持续几年，而非几月了事。

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Some specific regions had suffered downturns : prices in Texas, for example, fell during the Savings and Loans debacle of the late 1980s.

某些地区遭遇了市场滑坡：例如，在20世纪80年代末储贷危机中德克萨斯州的房产价格下跌。

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Structural changes in Europe’s labour markets suggest that jobs will go faster than in previous downturns .

欧洲劳动力市场的结构变化意味着失业速度快于以往经济下滑时期。

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Nevertheless, even big downturns represent only pauses in long-run progress if we keep the engines of long-term growth in place.

然而，如果我们坚定的保持长期增长的动力，即使大衰退也只代表着长期增长过程中的一个短暂休止符。

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It is chilling that such huge deteriorations in public finances are still not enough to prevent deep and prolonged downturns .

让人寒心的是，公共财政恶化到如此大的地步，还是不足以阻止经济滑入深远而又长期的低迷状态。

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The downturns in Japan and Germany, deeper than America’s (see chart), were mainly caused by the collapse in world trade.

日本和德国的经济比美国衰退地更加厉害（见图表），其主要原因是国际贸易量猛跌。

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Downturns also funnel people into different jobs from those they might otherwise have entered.

若不存在经济下滑，人们可能会选择不同的工作。

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It’s a fact of life that downturns and recessions often lead to layoffs.

生活中残酷的现实是经济低迷和衰退往往会导致裁员下岗。

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indeed, previous attempts to avoid downturns may have created the conditions for this recession to be especially severe.

事实上，之前那些避免经济低靡的努力很可能会为更为严重的萧条埋下伏笔。

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High-end fashion turns out to be more susceptible to downturns than leather goods or other accessories.

事实证明，相比皮革制品和其他的配饰，高端时装更容易受经济衰退的影响。

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They note that housing downturns often take several years to hit bottom, and that high prices have sidelined many would-be buyers.

他们注意到房地产的低迷时期常常要经过几年的时间才能跌至谷底，而且高房价使许多想要购房的人望而却步。

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