The Declining Years的意思|示意

After declining for six years the number of poor people has increased sharply.

问题变的越发严重，经过连续六年贫困人口数字持续下降之后，如今突然激增。

Pokhriyal plans to build 10 more DAMS over the next few years to fund his vision, but there may not be enough water in the area's rivers to fill them: water levels are declining across the state.

坡科瑞亚计划建造计划在未来的几年里建造10几座大坝来实现他的梦想，但是该地区的河流没有足够的水去填充大坝：整个州的水位都下降了。

Water voles are declining, but brown hare and polecat populations are rising. Greater and lesser horseshoe bat populations have risen 32% and 41% respectively over the past 10 years.

水鼠数量在下降，而棕色野兔和臭鼬的数量却在上升。在过去十年间，大菊头蝠和小菊头蝠的数量已分别上升32%和41%。

But in recent years, TV cartoons have been declining in viewership. This is largely due to the fact most Chinese cartoons are targeted only at children.

但是最近几年，电视动画片的收视率不断下降。这主要是由于大部分中国动画片只针对儿童这一事实。

Worse, in the last 15 years, the poorest quintile in many low-income countries have shown a declining share in national consumption.

更糟糕的是，在过去15年期间，许多低收入国家最贫困的五分之一人口在国民消费中所占份额持续减少。

These could reflect the declining weight of the human skeleton that seems to have accompanied the switch to settled life, which started some 15,000 years ago.

这能反映始于大约15，000年前向定居生活的转变时，伴随而来的人类骨架重量的下降。