deflation

noun

1. 通货紧缩
   a reduction in the amount of money in a country's economy so that prices fall or remain the same
2. 放气；抽气；泄气
   the action of air being removed from sth

1. N-UNCOUNT 通货紧缩
   Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
   1. Deflation is beginning to take hold in the clothing industry.
      通货紧缩开始全面影响服装业。

1. Deflation is beginning to take hold in the clothing industry.
   通货紧缩开始全面影响服装业。
2. These three challenges of debt, demographics and deflation have been weighing on the domestic demand growth trend.
   由债务，人口和通货紧缩所带来的三个挑战，一直在抑制国内需求增长的趋势。
3. As a result, unemployment is low but we have deflation.
   结果是，日本失业率是很低，但我们也出现了通缩。
4. QE was a response to a time of recession, financial distress and the threat of deflation.
   量化宽松是对经济衰退、财务困境和通缩威胁时期的回应。
5. Inflation and deflation are, at the end of the day, policy choices.
   通胀和通缩最终都属于政策选择。
6. But is deflation really a threat in today's economy?
   但通货紧缩对今天的经济真的是一种威胁吗？
7. Deflation is still an issue, and this remains a serious hindrance to economic growth.
   通货紧缩仍然是一个问题，严重阻碍经济增长。
8. Deflation is a third option, but this is also associated with persistent recession.
   通缩是第三种选择，但这也会伴随着持续不断的衰退。
9. The relationship between currency values and inflation or deflation is equally strong in other countries.
   其他国家中，货币价值与通货膨胀（或通货紧缩）之间的关系也同样密切。
10. We need to find a balance between ego inflation and ego deflation.
    我们需要在自我膨胀和自我泄气之间求得一个平衡。
11. The SNB has embraced the risk of deflation from which the ECB wishes to escape.
    瑞士央行已经接受了欧洲央行希望逃脱的通缩风险。
12. In recent years, our economy fluctuated significantly, accompanied with deflation and high growth rate.
    近年来，我国经济波动比较大，甚至出现了通货紧缩和高增长并存的现象。
13. The word for this is deflation, or declining prices, a term that gives economists chills.
    这一现象被称为通货紧缩或是价格下跌，这也为经济学家们带去了阵阵寒意。
14. He adopted a strategy of massive deflation.
    他采用了大规模通货紧缩的对策。
15. The crisis he inherits is one of recession and deflation.
    他接手的这场危机是一场经济衰退与通货紧缩危机。
16. What this should mean is that there is no change-just normal movements in inflation or deflation.
    这就意味着没有什么变化&在通货膨胀和通货紧缩之间正常运动。
17. Japan, which already had low inflation in the early 1980s, ended up in deflation.
    而在上世纪80年代初通胀就已处于低位的日本，最终却陷入了通缩。
18. For small open economies such as Latvia and Ireland, regaining competitiveness and growth through deflation might work.
    对拉脱维亚和爱尔兰等小型开放经济体而言，通过通缩来重获竞争力和经济增长的做法可能会奏效。
19. These three concerns secular stagnation and deflation, slow underlying economic growth and rising inequality are real.
    这三个令人担忧的问题&长期停滞和通缩，缓慢的经济潜在增长以及不平等的扩大，都是确实存在的。
20. Attempted tightening on this scale would dampen the economy and risk creating a vicious cycle of debt and deflation.
    如此大规模的紧缩尝试将对经济构成打击，并可能会制造一个债务和通缩的恶性循环。
21. Fiscal stimulus and lax monetary policy will help avoid debt deflation and depression.
    财政刺激和宽松的货币政策将有助于避免债务通缩和萧条。
22. Economic deflation and political disillusionment, climaxed by the government's defeat at the general election.
    以政府在大选中败北为高潮的经济紧缩和政治幻灭。
23. Everybody knows that the Fed's job is to stabilise the economy and prevent deflation.
    所有人都知道，美联储的工作是稳定经济和预防通缩。
24. Fourth, the greatest risk of sovereign credit crises comes not from profligacy but slow growth and deflation.
    第四，主权信贷危机的最大风险并非来自肆意挥霍，而是来自增长缓慢和通缩。
25. This points to sustained deflation pressure and lower sales volumes.
    这预示着持续的通货紧缩压力和更低的销售量。
26. New jitters are afoot about a double-dip recession and deflation too.
    双底衰退和通缩也引发了新的紧张情绪。
27. Ultra-low inflation, on the other hand, can easily become deflation in a recession.
    另一方面，在衰退时期，超低通胀会很容易转化为通缩。
28. Ultra-low inflation, let alone deflation, exacerbates the burden of debt.
    通胀率超低会加剧债务负担，通缩就更不用提了。
29. Currency deflation often goes along with economic recession with a worse influence than inflation.
    通货紧缩往往伴随有经济衰退，其对经济的影响可能比通货膨胀更严重。
30. High interest rates and deflation push up the exchange rate and with it the cost base.
    即是高利率和通货紧缩，因之提高了汇率与其所具的成本基础。

noun

1. the act of letting the air out of something

2. a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices

3. (geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind
   1. a constant deflation of the desert landscape