trend

noun

1. 趋势；趋向；倾向；动态；动向
   a general direction in which a situation is changing or developing
   1. economic/social/political trends
      经济 / 社会 / 政治趋势
   2. There is a growing trend towards earlier retirement.
      提早退休者有增加的趋势。
   3. current trends in language teaching
      当前语言教学的趋势
   4. a downward/an upward trend in sales
      销售额下滑 / 上升的趋势
   5. You seem to have set (= started) a new trend .
      看来你们是开了一个新风气。
   6. This trend is being reversed (= is going in the opposite direction) .
      这种倾向正在向相反的方向转变。
   7. One region is attempting to buck (= oppose or resist) the trend of economic decline.
      其中一个地区正试图挡住经济衰退的趋势。
   8. The underlying trend of inflation is still upwards.
      通货膨胀的潜在趋势仍然是上升的。

1. N-COUNT 趋势;倾向;动向
   A trend is a change or development towards something new or different.
   1. This is a growing trend.
      这是日益显著的趋势。
   2. ...a trend towards part-time employment.
      倾向于兼职就业的趋势
   3. …the downward trend in gasoline prices.
      汽油价格下滑的趋势
2. N-COUNT 规范;风尚;时尚
   To set a trend means to do something that becomes accepted or fashionable, and that a lot of other people copy.
   1. The record has already proved a success and may well start a trend.
      该唱片已证明大获成功，并且很可能会引导潮流。

1. Many traders forecast a continuation of the market's recent bearish trend.
   很多交易商都预测最近市场的下跌趋势还将延续。
2. While other newspapers are losing circulation, we are bucking the trend
   当其他报纸的发行量越来越少时，我们却逆势而进。
3. As far as starting a family is concerned, the trend is for women having their children later in life.
   在要孩子方面，目前的趋势是女性要孩子要得比较晚。
4. What we'll see in the future is, in fact, a continuation of that trend.
   事实上，将来我们看到的是那种趋势的延续。
5. You need a long series of data to be able to discern such a trend
   你需要一长串的数据才能看出这一趋势。
6. The downward trend in home ownership is likely to continue.
   拥有房屋所有权者人数减少的趋势可能会持续。
7. If the current trend continues, black farmers in the United States may be extinct by the end of this decade
   如果当前趋势继续发展下去，美国的黑人农民将在这个十年末不复存在。
8. The move is consistent with a trend for corporate legal staffs to do more work in-house, instead of farming it out to law firms
   这一举措符合让公司的法律专员在单位内部做更多的工作，而不是将工作分包给律师事务所的趋势。
9. The trend now is towards 'lifestyle' electronics — black, shiny gee-whiz things that people like to own.
   现在的趋势是追求“有品位”的电子产品——人们渴望拥有那些黑色锃亮、非常炫丽的东西。
10. There is a trend for knocking public-school headmasters and headmistresses off their perches.
    现在有一种推翻公立学校校长权威性的趋势。
11. It would be perverse to stop this healthy trend
    阻止这种健康发展的趋势是没有道理的。
12. The rise, the first in 10 months, reversed the downward trend in Belgium's jobless rate.
    10个月来失业率的首次上升逆转了比利时失业率持续下降的趋势。
13. The downward trend went into reverse and the scores started to creep up again.
    比分下降的趋势发生逆转，分数又开始逐渐上升了。
14. Lyle, I'm sure, would have had a very tart comment to make about this new social trend.
    我敢肯定，莱尔会对这种社会新潮流发表非常尖刻的评论。
15. the trend towards couples living together rather than marrying.
    倾向于同居而不是结婚的趋势
16. This is a growing trend.
    这是日益显著的趋势。
17. the downward trend in gasoline prices.
    汽油价格下滑的趋势
18. The record has already proved a success and may well start a trend.
    该唱片已证明大获成功，并且很可能会引导潮流。
19. Dealers have already got wise to the trend and increased their prices accordingly.
    交易商已经摸清了动向，相应提高了价格。
20. The report suggested that the same trend was at work in politics
    这份报告表明，同一趋势也在影响着政治。
21. The raging trend of reforms is irresistible.
    改革浪潮是不可抗拒的。
22. Taiwan will return to the embrace of the motherland; the whole country must be united. This is the general trend of development and the common aspiration of the people.
    台湾要回到祖国的怀抱，全国一定要统一。这是大势所趋，人心所向。
23. The general trend of history is unalterable.
    历史发展的总趋势是不可改变的。
24. Today's trend is toward less formal clothing.
    眼下时尚趋向于穿着随便。
25. The trend of prices is still upwards.
    物价的趋向是仍在上涨。
26. The trend of d é tente cannot be reversed.
    和解的潮流不可逆转。
27. The recent trend in the study of food freezing and thawing was introduced in this paper.
    本文介绍了近年来食品冻结及解冻技术研究领域的一些新进展。
28. No one can change the general trend of world history.
    世界历史的总趋势任何人也改变不了。

noun

1. the popular taste at a given time
   1. leather is the latest vogue
   2. he followed current trends
   3. the 1920s had a style of their own

   Synonym:    voguestyle

2. a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
   1. not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book
   2. a broad movement of the electorate to the right

   Synonym:    driftmovement

3. general line of orientation
   1. the river takes a southern course
   2. the northeastern trend of the coast

   Synonym:    course

4. a general direction in which something tends to move
   1. the shoreward tendency of the current
   2. the trend of the stock market

   Synonym:    tendency

verb

1. turn sharply
   1. The car cut to the left at the intersection
   2. The motorbike veered to the right

   Synonym:    swervesheercurveveerslueslewcut