喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/rɪˈseʃən/經濟衰退

    A hard time when a country has less trade and business than usual, so shops sell less and many companies grow more slowly.

    示範例句 · Example

    The car industry is feeling the effects of the recession.

    逐字汽車工業正在感覺到這次經濟衰退的影響。

    「recession」是英文裡講「國家經濟變差、買賣變少」的那段時間——新聞常說 the economy is in recession。怎麼想它？可以想成「整個國家的生意往後退一小段」：大家花少一點，店賣少一點，公司變慢。它比 slowdown / downturn 更重（那兩個常是「開始變慢」），比 depression 短也沒那麼嚴重（depression 是很長、很深的蕭條）。常見說法：in recession、slide into recession、pull out of recession。

    常見搭配

    • in recession / be in recession

      處於經濟衰退

      experiencing a recession; trade and business are weaker than usual

      The economy is in recession and will need time to recover.

    • economic recession

      經濟衰退

      a recession that affects a country’s economy

      People talk about the economic recession of the early 1980s in class.

    • a deep / severe recession

      嚴重的經濟衰退

      a very bad recession

      In a severe recession, shops often sell much less than usual.

    • slide / slip into recession

      陷入／滑入經濟衰退

      to start experiencing a recession

      Most experts do not think the country will slide into recession soon.

    • pull out of recession

      走出經濟衰退

      to leave a recession and start doing better again

      The government hopes new plans will help pull the country out of recession.

    • be hit by a recession

      受到經濟衰退衝擊

      to be badly affected by a recession

      Small shops were hardest hit by the recession last year.

    • world / global / worldwide recession

      全球經濟衰退

      a recession that affects many countries at the same time

      Airlines often struggle during a world recession.

    • the beginning / end of the recession

      衰退的開始／結束

      when a recession starts or finishes

      Many people hope we are near the end of the recession.

core核心畫面

Picture a tide going out. Nothing is broken and the sea has not disappeared — the water is simply pulling back, so boats sit lower, more sand shows, and everything that floated easily last month now the bottom. A recession can be pictured that way: money across a whole country steps backwards for a while. Shops ring up fewer sales, factories make less, companies stop hiring, and people feel it as 'things are tighter this year'. The word names the direction of the movement — backwards — not a single accident.

可以想成潮水退下去的樣子。沒有什麼壞掉，海也沒有消失，只是水往後縮：船的位置變低、沙灘露出更多，上個月還能輕鬆漂著的東西，現在都會刮到底。recession 的畫面可以這樣看——整個國家的錢往後退了一段時間。店裡結帳的次數變少、工廠做得少、公司暫停徵人，一般人感覺到的就是「今年比較緊」。這個字講的是移動的方向（往後退），而不是某一件突然出事的意外。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

複數 recessions

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

recessionnoun/ɹɪˈsɛʃn̩/

  • 1

    The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.

    • […]that light may break forth from the deepest enclosures of darkness, and mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice, and grace may triumph upon the ruin of sin, and God may be glorified in the miracles of our conversion, and the wonders of our preservation and glories of our being saved.
  • 2

    A period of low temperatures that causes a reduction in species; ice age.

    • Eastward in Bosnia, while the central European clime prevails, the thermic gradient does not follow the recession in the north latitude, but the elevation of the terrain.
    • Had this climate recession not occurred, the settlements might have provided the first real bridgehead into the continent of America, rather than being rediscovered by Columbus and later by Cabot.
  • 3

    economicssciencesA period of reduced economic activity.

    • Statisticians often define a recession as negative real GDP growth during two consecutive quarters.
    • In past recessions, drugstores were virtually immune from a turndown.
  • 4

    The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.

  • 5

    The act of ceding something back.

  • 6

    medicinesciencessurgeryA procedure in which an extraocular muscle is detached from the globe of the eye and reattached posteriorly.

    • Bilateral medial rectus muscle recession when angle is stable. Controversy exists regarding optimal timing of surgery. If greater than 40 prism diopter esotropia, some recommend bimedial recession with resection of one lateral rectus muscle.

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