The glamour stocks of the age saw their values plummet.

当时的魅力股的价值大大缩水。

Everyone expects Broadway's box office to plummet in September.

大家都预料到9月百老汇的票房会大幅下跌。

After menopause, when estrogen levels plummet, some women become forgetful.

绝经期后，当雌激素水平骤然下降，一些女性开始变得健忘。

Now water tables plummet in countries harboring half the world's population.

现在世界一半人口不得不正视这样一个事实：因为过度汲取地下水，他们所在的国家的地下水位急剧下降。

The new drachma would plummet, making Greece’s debt burden even more onerous.

新的希腊货币将会狂跌，使国家的债务负担变得更加沉重。

Threats: Disease and climate change have seen populations plummet by up to 80%.

威胁：疾病和气候变化已经使其数量直线降落高达80%。

The word refers to the rapid plummet of women’s reproductive hormones around age fifty.

“更年期”一词指的是五十岁左右的妇女其生殖激素快速下降。

If interest rates rose, then the value of the government bonds the Banks hold would plummet.

如果利率上涨，那么这些银行所持有的美国国债的价值将大幅缩水。

Although the average temperature is-25C, it can plummet to -40 or soar to zero in the summer.

尽管这里的平均气温是零下25摄氏度，最冷时会降到零下40度，夏季时升到零度左右。

The markets began to plummet even before the 15-minute voting period expired on the House floor.

在众议院的投票期限截止前15分钟市场就开始走低。

But exports continue to plummet, dropping nearly 23 percent in April from the same month last year.

但是出口继续下滑，4月份出口跟去年同比下降近百分之23。

I see children who have all sorts of talent, and then all of a sudden their grades start to plummet.

我看到一些天资聪颖的孩子成绩突然直线下降。

The growing fear that those bonds will plummet in value, or even default, is roiling financial markets.

人们越来越担忧这些债券将大幅贬值，甚至出现违约，金融市场为之动荡不安。

Its sales of CDs are plummet ing and it issued two profit warnings in the first two months of this year.

公司的CD销售量直线下滑，今年头两个月两次发布利润预警。

After diligent effort, players routinely see their "brain age" plummet from, say, a sluggish 60 to a taut 30.

通过勤奋的努力，游戏者将可以看到他们的“大脑年龄”骤降，比如从反应迟缓的60岁降到反应敏锐的30岁。

This time, we will not plummet down and then bounce back comfortably to where we were before it all started.

这一次，我们将不会直线下降继而舒服地弹回原地，这回的萧条会有不同寻常的深远影响。

If selling off those bonds caused their price to plummet, the financial losses to the U.S. would be negligible.

抛售那些债券致使债券价格暴跌，对于美国金融资产的损失可以忽略不计。

Several companies sought to raise cash by selling their carbon certificates, causing the price of carbon to plummet.

几家公司已经试图通过出售其许可证筹集现金，这造成了碳价格的骤然下降。

Workers bear the risks of the market; many cheer when their accounts rise, but watch in anguish as they plummet.

工人承担了市场的风险；众多工人在他们的帐户资产上涨时欢呼雀跃；而遇到下跌时，各自黯然神伤。

Paulson's Credit Opportunities Fund soared almost sixfold in 2007 on bets that subprime mortgages would plummet.

在2007年，由于下赌次级按揭贷款会暴跌，保尔森的信用机会基金翻了接近6倍。

Of course, wealthy countries are affected: long-term drought in Australia has caused certain crop yields to plummet.

当然了，富裕国家也受到了影响：长期的干旱已经造成澳大利亚农作物产量暴跌。

Today, demand by middle-class buyers is surging as salaries rise and car prices, driven down by competition, plummet.

今天，收入增加和竞争带来的车价下调更刺激了中产阶级的购车需求。

Wider economic ills in Europe have given investors further pause, causing European demand for solar panels to plummet.

欧洲经济进一步的恶化使得投资者踌躇不前，导致欧洲对太阳能电池板的需求直线下降。

If the United States does not have a cap-and-trade law in place by then, the chance of a global agreement will plummet.

如果届时美国还没颁布一个排放限制及交易的法律，那达成全球一致，解决气候变化问题的可能性也随即大减。

Auto makers, including Toyota, are setting aside millions of dollars in leased-vehicle losses as used-car prices plummet.

此外，由于二手车价格大幅下挫，丰田等车商不得不留出数百万美元，作为租车业务的损失准备金。