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1·The number of sharks in the world is dropping fast.

世界上鲨鱼的数量正在迅速减少。

2·A library with a bundled subscription deal cannot make ends meet by dropping a few journals, as it could in the old days.

从前图书馆可以通过减少一部分期刊来达到收支平衡，但是在进行捆绑订阅交易的年代这种做法却行不通了。

3·The signs are encouraging; payroll employment growth has accelerated from early summer, and initial claims for jobless benefits are dropping.

有关迹象是令人鼓舞的，就业人数的增长从夏初开始就加快了，领取失业补助的人数在减少。

4·Growing smaller means parking planes, laying off workers and dropping destinations, meaning potential customers have fewer reasons to book.

缩小规模，意味着让飞机停飞、裁员以及减少目的地的数量，那么潜在客户预订机票的理由就更少了。

5·Fearful of more financial losses, some Banks are cutting consumer credit lines, raising interest rates or dropping card users altogether.

由于担心更多的财务损失，一些银行开始降低客户的信用额度、提高利率或者减少信用卡客户的总数量。

1·Toolbelts free both hands and lessen the risk of dropping hammers.

工具带解放了双手，并减少了锤子掉落的危险。

—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

2·Though dropping a box off from time to time seems harmless, they add up quick and your storage unit will end up as cluttered and confused as your closets may once have been.

向储藏室放置东西的时候会花费你的一些时间，但这是有必要的，虽然一个盒子的掉落不会带来什么，但是如果你不花费时间去捡起它，那么到最后你的储藏室也将会像把东西都放在家里一样乱。

3·Now I'm really fantastic at drawing this mechanical device, but you can imagine that dropping a weight can cause a paddle wheel to turn.

机械装置的时候，我真的很着迷，你可以想象，当重物掉落的时候会带动桨轮旋转。

4·With a 100% better chance of getting a magic item, a monster with a 1% chance of dropping a magical item would have that random chance go up to 2%.

更好得到一个魔术的项目与一100%碰巧，与掉落一个魔术的项目的一个1%机会的一个怪物将让那个随意的机会直到2%去。

5·A woman dropping a camera she was trying to load, the film unrolling in the slush and exposing itself.

一个妇女把准备上胶卷的照相机掉落下来，胶卷散在雪泥上曝光了。

1·"In Tel Aviv you don't hear Israel's bombs dropping on Gaza, but you do in Sderot," says Mr Elkabetz, explaining the empathy.

艾卡贝茨先生说：“在特拉维夫，你听不到以色列空投在加沙的炮弹的爆炸声，但在斯德洛特，你却听得到。”

2·One AD featured stealth bombers dropping phones on a farm, in the woods, and by the side of a road.

广告之一是隐形轰炸机把电话空投到农场、树林和路边。

3·On August 10th Mr Putin got behind the controls of a plane dropping 12 tonnes of water on two fires. "Was that a hit?"

月10日，普京在一架飞机上按下控制键，12吨水空投到了两处火场上。

4·The logic was that the eagle thought his head was a stone, wanting to kill the live tortoise by dropping it.

人们的推理是老鹰以为他的头是块石头，想把活乌龟空投到上面摔死。

5·The Pentagon is still searching for a new color for the food packets it is dropping over Afghanistan, but ruled out light blue because Afghans might object to a shade that dominates U.

美国国防部官员上星期四说，五角大楼仍然在为空投到阿富汗食物包找一种新的颜色，但排除了使用淡蓝色的可能。

1·From southern parts of the UK, the initial partial phase and the beginning of totality were expected to be visible, with the Moon dropping down into the western sky as dawn approached.

在英国南部地区，由于随着黎明的到来月亮从西边缓缓落下，只能看到起初的部分月相和月全食的开始阶段，即初亏。

2·Dynamic consolidation is a way to improve soil strength and reduce compressibility of the soil by lifting and dropping a heavy hammer very high to hit the foundation soil.

强夯法，是将重锤起吊到高处自由落下，对地基进行强力夯实，提高土体强度、降低其压缩性。

3·It flies around in the skies of the Isshu Region dropping thunderbolts.

它在伊修地区的天空中飞，而且落下雷电。

4·Celebrated in Times Square since 1904, New Year's Eve is marked first with exploding fireworks, then with the famous "dropping of the ball" starting 10 seconds before midnight.

庆祝会在时代广场自从1904年，新年的除夕的标志首先是放焰火，然后用著名的“球的落下”启动10秒在午夜。

5·The invention can prevent tablets from bouncing in the tablet drop guide path and shorten the dropping time so as to be ready in time for packing.

采用本发明，能防止片剂在片剂落下引导通道中的回跳，并缩短落下时间以来得及包装。