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 The price of wheat has decreased by 15%.
 - 小麦价格降低了15%。 《牛津词典》
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 The number of new students decreased from 210 to 160 this year.
 - 今年新生人数从210减少到160。 《牛津词典》
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 Fatal road accidents have decreased in frequency over recent years.
 - 近年来致命交通事故发生率已经下降。 《牛津词典》
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 The number of young people obtaining qualifications has remained static or decreased.
 - 获得各种资格证书的年轻人的数量一直保持不变或者已经减少。 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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 The combination of hot weather and decreased water supplies is hurting many industries.
 - 天气炎热和供水减少这两个因素结合在一起对很多行业造成了损害。 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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 Soil erosion decreased their crop yields.
 - 土壤侵蚀降低了他们的作物产量。 
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 Global measles deaths decreased by 78% during this period.
 - 在此期间,全球麻疹死亡率下降了78%。 
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 While Spain as a whole is heating up quickly, temperatures near the greenhouses have decreased.
 - 尽管整个西班牙的气温迅速上升,但温室附近的气温却下降了。 
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 Frank Arroyo said that his rental business has decreased by 90% since Citi Bike was rolled out last month.
 - 弗兰克·阿罗约说,自从上个月花旗集团推出自行车以来,他的租赁业务已经减少了90%。 
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 Others see a conspiracy of big businesses, causing decreased competition, increased fares and fewer choices.
 - 其他人则认为这种大企业的阴谋导致竞争的减少、票价的上涨和选择的减少。 
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 Owner Frank Arroyo said that his rental business has decreased by 90% since Citi Bike was rolled out last month.
 - 业主弗兰克·阿罗约说,自从上个月花旗集团推出自行车以来,他的租赁业务已经减少了90%。 
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 Between 1990 and 1998, road haulage increased by 19.4%, while during the same period rail haulage decreased by 43.5%.
 - 在1990年到1998年间,公路运输增加了19.4%,而同期铁路货运量下降了43.5%。 
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 Others point out that decreased sediment loads will likely lead to erosion of downstream riverbanks and the Mekong Delta.
 - 其他人指出,泥沙负荷的减少可能会导致下游河岸和湄公河三角洲的侵蚀。 
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 E-book sales are up 146 percent over last year, while hardback sales increased 6 percent and paperbacks decreased 8 percent.
 - 电子书销量比去年增长了146%,而精装本销量增长了6%,平装本销量下降了8%。 
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 That sounds pretty terrible, but the loss of life has decreased by a factor of 10 simply because we are getting better at warning people.
 - 这听起来很可怕,但死亡人数已经减少了十倍,这仅仅是因为我们的预防工作做得越来越好了。 
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 That sounds pretty terrible, but the loss of life has decreased by a factor of 10, simply because we are getting better at warning people.
 - 这听起来很可怕,但是生命的损失已经减少了十分之一,这仅仅是因为我们在警告人们这一方面做得越来越好了。 
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 Our present understanding of the Sun's luminosity holds that it should have progressively increased, not decreased, over the course of Earth's history.
 - 当前我们对太阳光度的认知是:在地球的历史进程上,太阳光度应该是逐渐增加而不是减少的。 
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 Evidence from other studies suggests that exclusion of fire results in markedly decreased plant-species richness, often with an increase in tree density.
 - 来自其他研究的证据表明,没有火灾会导致植物物种丰富性显著减少,通常还会伴随着树木密度的增加。 
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 In the twenty years that the Clean Air Act has mandated unleaded gas use in the United States, the lead accumulation worldwide has decreased significantly.
 - 在《清洁空气法案》强制要求美国使用无铅气体的二十年里,铅在世界范围内的累积量显著下降。 
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 In the past, every ten-percentage-point increase in cigarette prices in the country of Coponia has decreased per capita sales of cigarettes by four percent.
 - 过去,科普尼亚的香烟价格每上涨10个百分点,人均香烟销量就会下降4%。 
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 But since 1980, the amount of water consumed per person has actually decreased, thanks to a range of new technologies that help to conserve water in homes and industry.
 - 但自1980年以来,在一系列帮助家庭和工业节水的新技术应用之后,人均用水量实际上有所下降。 
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 Among student subjects who discussed meat ethics, meal purchases containing meat decreased from 52 to 45 percent—and this effect held steady for the study's duration of several weeks.
 - 在参与讨论肉类伦理的学生受试人群中,肉食购买率从52%下降到45%——而且这一影响在研究持续的几周内保持稳定。 
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 In a study published in the journal Ambio, scientists found that lead levels in soil in the North-eastern United States had decreased markedly since the introduction of unleaded gasoline.
 - 在《人类环境杂志》上发表的一项研究称,科学家们发现,自引进无铅汽油以来,美国东北部土壤中的铅含量已经显著下降。 
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 Smith counters that if you factor in the hidden cost of government corn subsidies, environment degradation, and decreased human health and animal welfare, grass-fed is the more cost-effective model.
 - 史密斯反驳说,如果你把政府谷物补贴的隐藏成本、环境恶化以及人类健康和动物保护的减少考虑在内,那么草饲模式更具成本效益。 
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 Since 1945 air forces have decreased in size.
 - 1945年以来,空军的规模已经缩小。 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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 The number of independent firms decreased from 198 to 96.
 - 独立公司的数量从198家减到了96家。 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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 This switch has decreased pollution in the country's major lakes and reservoirs and made drinking water safer for people.
 - 这一转变已降低了中国主要湖泊和水库的污染,使人们的饮用水更加安全。 
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 Our income has decreased and now we must practice a strict economy.
 - 我们的收入减少了,现在我们必须厉行节约。 
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 The overall number of bacteria on the surface mattered more, and this decreased over time after the initial introduction.
 - 表面上的细菌总数更为重要,且在初次注入细菌后,细菌总数会随着时间推移而逐渐减少。 
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 The rates of preoperative inexpectant disease finding decreased.
 - 术前未预期疾病发现率有所降低。