1·The growth in public agricultural-research spending peaked in the 1970s and has been shrinking ever since.
20世纪70年代，农业研究公共支出的增长达到顶峰，此后持续减少。
2·Just when the best investment opportunity comes, the degree of people's disappointment with the stock market has just peaked.
就在最好的投资机会来临的时候，人们对股票市场失望的程度却刚好达到顶峰。
3·At the heart of its analysis is the ongoing effect of a "youth bulge" which peaked in 2000.
报告分析的核心内容是在2000年达到顶峰的“青年潮”所产生的持续效果。
4·The percentage of churchgoers remains high, though it peaked, at 55%, in 1987.
教徒们仍然保持很高的比例，尽管在1987达到顶峰55%。
5·He also shrugs off our more recent skepticism about his belief that the world's production of oil has peaked: he, too, hopes that "peak oil" proves to be a myth, he says.
后来本刊对他认为的世界石油产量已经达到顶峰的观点表示怀疑，但他对此满不在乎，表示他也希望“石油峰值”之说是无稽之谈。