Can you drive a forklift? Those five deflating words instantly alerted me that my prep-school background and advanced degrees would mean nothing on the new job.

“你会开叉车吗?”这句听起来让人泄气的话一下提醒了我,我上大学之前所受的教育和大学中得到的学位在这份工作中都毫无用处。

The act of deflating or the condition of being deflated.

放气,瘪掉抽气的动作或缩小的状态

Economists are accustomed to deflating the money value of national income by the average level of prices to obtain "real" income

经济学家通常用国民收入的货币价值减去平均物价上涨额度来计算“实际”收入。

Implicit deflator: Obtained by taking each component of gross national product in as fine detail as possible and deflating it from current data.

隐性物价缩减指数:该指数尽可能细地抽取国民生产总值的各个组成部分,从现有数据中折算得出。

||1:Those worried that a new internet bubble pumped up by wild dreams and unabashed greed is now deflating will be watching closely to see whether tech firms' latest results give further cause for alarm.||2:On April 15th Yahoo published its quarterly earnings, which showed a tiny increase in revenue after excluding the cost of fees paid to its partner websites.||3:Its shares rose on the news.||4:Google was due to report its results the next day, after The Economistwent to press.

||1:有些人担心，由狂野的梦想和毫不掩饰的贪婪所催生的新一轮网络泡沫正在破裂，这些人将密切关注科技公司最近的经营结果是否会进一步引起恐慌。||2:4月15日，雅虎发布了季度收益，数字中显示出，剔除掉支付给合作网站的费用后，其收入有着微幅增长。||3:消息发布后雅虎股价有所上涨。||4:4月16日本刊付印后，谷歌也应该发布了其经营结果。

House prices in Europe are losing touch with reality again. Deflating the bubbles will not be easy

欧洲的房价渐与现实脱节。挤压泡沫并非易事

After all, China is still officially deflating .

毕竟，从官方数据来看，中国仍处于通缩中。

Over the next ten minutes it exhaled, deflating into what I can only describe as a compact, sway-backed, brick of chocolate-fudge.

大概十分钟以后，它开始收缩，缩成了一个小型的，凹凸不平的，砖状的巧克力软糖。

It seems that for countries that run deficits with China on consumer goods, China's trade growth may be a deflating factor.

对于那些在生活消费品贸易中的逆差国来说，中国的贸易增长似乎会是一个紧缩因素。

Official data show a market deflating lethargically, with prices only 12. 8% below their peak.

官方数据显示房地产市场呈现出萎靡的收缩状态，价格相比最高锋时下降了12.

Far from deflating Hamas, the six-year-long boycott by most Western governments seems only to have won it influence.

哈马斯非但没有任何受损，大多数西方政府实施的长达六年的联合抵制似乎也不过是造造声势罢了。

SEVERAL MILES AWAY, Josh is plummeting toward the rainforest, still wrapped in the tentacles of the deflating medusa.

几英里之外，杰克仍然被水母的触角缠绕着，暴跌入热带雨林。

It reached its peak in 2005 and then plateaued, and started deflating in 2006 and accelerated since.

泡沫在2005年达到顶峰，并维持着，到06年开始破灭，此后加速破灭。

Listing 6 shows how to instantiate the menu by deflating its XML definition.

清单6展示了如何通过具体化其XML定义而实例化菜单的。

Now the model is not deflating , but vanishing: once profligate American consumers are saving instead of spending.

如今，这一模式并非正在收缩，而是正在消失：曾经放荡的美国消费者们正在开始储蓄，不再大手大脚花钱。

The ripple effects arising from China's deflating housing sector cannot be underestimated.

所以我们不能小觑中国楼市紧缩的带来的涟漪效应。

So is a high-fashion partnership simply a way to bolster the deflating British music industry?

所以与高端时装联手只是为了拯救不断走下坡路的英国音乐业？

Some would still blame the Fed, for not deflating asset bubbles with higher interest rates.

一些人仍会归咎于美联储没有用高利率将资产泡沫挤掉。

THE bubble that caused a global recession has been a long time deflating .

引发全球经济衰退的泡沫一直在破灭，已经历时已久。

deflating cap

开关帽

deflating cap

防护帽

deflating index

调节指标

deflating index

调节指数

deflating valve

放气嘴

deflating variable

减缩变量

deflating variable

减缩变数

deflating price level

价格下降水平

tube deflating machine

内胎抽气泵

deflator;deflating index

减缩指数

Deflating(of economic data)

(经济数据)紧缩

deflating valve;gas escape valve;deflation valve

放气阀

air valve;deflating cap;filling valve;inflating valve

气门嘴