急剧下降

fall short───不符合标准

rise sharply───急剧上升；大幅上升

turn sharply───急转弯

Dall sheep───戴尔绵羊

bull shark───牛鲨；白真鲨

bull sharks───牛鲨；白真鲨

fair share───公平分配；公平共享

fall apart───崩溃；土崩瓦解；破碎

fall away───vt.消失；背离，离开；疏失；抛弃；消瘦；倾斜

Foreign investment is likely to fall sharply. Soaring tax revenues once shrank budget deficits—but now the tax take is falling, exposing unreformed public finances.───这是由于经济快速增长的同时也提升了物价，税收激增虽一度缩小了财政赤字，但如今税收减少却暴露出了公共开支未能进行改革的弊端，况且外国投资又有下降的可能。

If property prices fall sharply and that leads to a slump in construction, the government will find itself under pressure to reverse course - at the expense of reflating the bubble.───如果房价大幅下降，并导致建筑活动锐减，中国政府将会面临压力，改变政策方向——代价是重新吹大泡沫。

If it turns out that China (rather than gold) is a bubble and that growth in developing nations disappoints, then you would expect commodity prices to fall sharply and gold to follow suit.───如果中国(不仅仅是黄金)存在泡沫，并且发展中国家的增长让人失望，那么就可以期望商品价格大幅下降，随之而来的是金价的下降。

Whatever the case, no one expects UBS to fall sharply down the Asia investment banking rankings, even if it does lose the top spot.───无论是哪种情况，即使瑞银确实失去了冠军宝座，也没人认为瑞银在亚洲投行业务中的排名会大幅下降。

The cost of insuring against corporate-bond defaults did not fall sharply.───公司债券违约保险费用没有大幅下降。

However, Moody's now thinks that this global default rate has peaked and will fall sharply next year, to about 4 per cent.───然而，穆迪现在认为，该全球违约率已经见顶，并会在明年大幅下降至4%左右。

As the liquidity crisis deepened, asset prices began to fall sharply.───随着流动性危机加深，资产价格开始大幅下滑。

Both are bleeding cash and are in danger of running out of liquidity sometime next year as sales fall sharply in their core US market.───由于在核心的美国市场销售大幅下滑，两家公司正在大量消耗现金，或许明年某个时候就会面临流动资金告罄的局面。

And, of course, if Amazon shares fall sharply, you will take a loss, though it will be offset in part by the premium income.───当然，如果亚马逊的股价暴跌，你就会遭受损失，但期权费收入还是能让你少亏一点。

Bubble A speculative market or stock in which the values rise very rapidly and then fall sharply.

For example, when the SNB's floor in EUR-CHF was established and concerns over Eurozone sovereign risk remained very high, this proved to be a key tipping point for EUR-USD to fall sharply.

Inflation will fall sharply and hence there is room for interest rate cuts this calendar year.

Despite the fillip from the temporary reduction in value - added tax, consumer spending will fall sharply.

While weak earnings forecasts caused many stocks to fall sharply, unexpectedly strong outlooks or actual earnings were rewarded.

Moreover, NAND prices are likely to fall sharply, as new flash fabrication facilities come on line.

After that, volumes were expected to fall sharply.

But the ratio would then fall sharply in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century.