slow-down

基本解释

If I'm building HTML5 apps, why should we require the download (and slow-down) of scripts that help out older browsers?
如果我在开发HTML5应用，为什么我们需要下载（以及缓慢地）脚本来帮助兼容旧有浏览器呢？
The visibility into rules provided to business users empowers them to make rapid changes without the slow-down inherent in IT cycles.
向业务用户提供的规则可见性支持他们快速进行更改，不必受制于 IT 周期的缓慢循环。
The Economist's dollar industrials index fell by 3% this week as investment funds sold commodities on fears of a slow-down in economic growth in the wake of a world credit squeeze.
为防止经济增长下滑所应起的全球信贷紧缩，投资基金售出工业商品，这使本周经济学家美元工业指数下降了3%。

That ratio may have been higher in the nineteenth century; it's gradually trending down, but it's a slow-moving thing.
在19世纪这个比率要高一些,然后逐渐下降,但这是个缓慢变化的过程
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But would a substantial slow-down or even an outright recession spread over to emerging markets?
FORBES: Emerging Markets cannot escape a global recession
By now, however, the economy has slow-down and the market has discounted the prospect of expiring drugs.
FORBES: Pharmaceuticals Trading Near 52-Week Highs
That FedEx will tamp down its Asian business reflects the slow-down in growth that the region faces.
FORBES: FedEx: Disappointing Q3 Profit Sends Another Warning About Slowing Asian Growth

If something slows down or if something slows it down, it starts to move or happen more slowly.
If someone slows down or if something slows them down, they become less active.
&rarrsee also slowdown