To decline to vote is a cop-out.

不投票是一种逃避。

Even chimp mothers regularly decline to share food with their children.

甚至黑猩猩的母亲也经常拒绝与孩子分享食物。

Analysts attribute the decline to such factors as advances in digital databases and communication systems.

分析师将这种下降归因于数字数据库和通信系统的进步等因素。

Even chimp mothers regularly decline to share food with their children, who are able from a young age to gather their own food.

连母猩猩也经常拒绝和孩子们分享食物，因此孩子们从小就能自己觅食。

And there are reasons to expect the rate of decline to accelerate.

并且有理由预期下跌的速率还会加快。

In particular, growth is forecast to decline to just 7 per cent a year.

具体而言，经济年增长率预期将降至7%。

When reached for comment, an HP spokesperson decline to say anything about the matter.

但惠普公司发言人拒绝对此事发表任何评论。

“I decline to answer that, sir, since I hit the brakes as soon as I saw you, ” I answered.

我没法回答你这个问题，警官先生。 当我看见你的车时，我就踩了刹车。

Proponents of intelligent-designtheory frequently decline to be pinned down on these points.

智慧设计论的支持者通常不愿放下架子来回答这些问题。

The Shanghai Composite Index closed 1.9 percent lower, extending this year's decline to 26 percent.

上证综合指数报收1.9%以下，今年已持续下降26%。

The scientists then traced the leptin decline to a pathway that originates in the brain's hypothalamus.

随后，科学家跟踪瘦素下降原因，找到通路的源头——大脑下丘脑部。

Do what you feel you need to do for your business, I'll be polite, say thank you, and decline to sign.

为你的商业做觉得需要做的事情吧，我会很礼貌的说谢谢，并拒绝签字。

No court has yet ruled in this case in light of the new facts, and we decline to be the first to do so.

迄今尚未有哪一所法院在本案中依据新的事实作出裁决，本院亦不愿为人先。

In fact, in terms of real money (gold and silver), NIA believes real Estate prices will decline to record lows.

事实上，以真正的货币(黄金和白银)计价，房地产价格将下降到历史最低点。

"I think the best thing I can do is to decline to comment on what they are going to do going forward," she said.

我认为，我最好不要对他们将要做的事情发表评论。

Interestingly, though, this region also features the largest number of users who decline to disclose their gender.

但是，非常有趣的是，这些地区的用户中有很大一部分拒绝透漏他(她)们的性别信息。

There's a spike, followed by a decline, followed by a higher spike, followed by a decline to a higher trough, and so on.

有个尖峰，接着是下跌，然后又是稍高一些的尖峰，接着跌入一个较高的波谷，如此反复。

Some of them decline to file for restitution - a judge in Minnesota ordered prosecutors to explain why - but many have.

其中一些检察官拒绝提出赔偿——明尼苏达的一位法官要求检察官解释为什么要提出这个赔偿——不过还是有很多检察官没有拒绝赔偿要求。

But officials decline to say how many people are named in the documents or what steps they are taking to protect those people.

但是官员们拒绝表示文件透露了多少人名，以及将采取什么办法保护这些人。

Yet most of them decline to take any ethical position of their own, even though they favor an interest rate higher than Stern's.

但是他们中的大多数却决定表明自身的立场，即使他们给出比Stern高得多的利率。

Later this decade, we expect to see the Dow/Gold ratio bottom at 1 and the Gold/Silver ratio decline to below 16 and possibly as low as 10.

在21世纪20年代后期，道指/黄金价格比将跌到1，也就是历史低点。 而黄金/白银价格比下降到16以下，甚至可能跌到10。

Demographers believe Russia's population of 144 million will decline to 115 million by 2050, and one expert said it could fall as low as 77 million.

人口统计学家相信到2050年俄罗斯的人口将由目前的1.44亿人减低到1.15亿，有个别观点认为最低可能到达0.77亿人。

Some, such as Aldi, a German retailer, and Géant Casino, another French hypermarket group, decline to answer questions about their palm-oil policies.

而像Aldi,（德国零售商）以及Géant Casino（另一家法国超大卖场）则拒绝透露棕榈油的相关条约。

Intel predicted that its gross margin, which stood at 53.1% in the fourth period, would likely decline to percentages in the 'low 40s' in the first quarter.

英特尔预计2009年第一季度的毛利润率很可能会下滑至40%出头的水平，而2008年第四季度的毛利润率则为53.1%。

It's expected that Burkina's comparatively strong rate of growth-running at more than 5% on average for the last decade-will decline to about 3.5% this year.

今年，布基纳相对强劲的增长率(过去十年平均超过了5%)可能会下降到3.5%。

Nokia said it still expects 2009 industry handset volumes to fall some 10% from 2008 levels, with most of the decline to happen in the first half of the year.

诺基亚预计，2009年整个手机行业的销售量将较2008年下滑10%，大多数降幅将发生在今年上半年。