1. 经济衰退；经济不景气
    A recession is a period when the economy of a country is doing badly, for example because industry is producing less and more people are becoming unemployed.

recession是什么意思

    e.g. The recession caused sales to drop off...
           经济不景气使销量下降。
    e.g. We should concentrate on sharply reducing interest rates to pull the economy out of recession...
           我们应该着力大幅下调利率以使经济走出衰退。