vicious spiral

基本解释

Fans of the new rules argue that mark-to-market accounting forced banks into a vicious spiral of forced sales and more losses.
新规则的支持者说紧盯市价的会计处理将迫使银行进入贱卖和承受更多损失的恶性循环之中。
Sufferers get trapped in a "vicious spiral" in which anxiety over their imagined illnesses makes them unable to cope with normal work and office situations, researchers said.
研究人员表示，陷入“恶性循环”的患者表现出对想象出来的疾病过度的焦虑，以至于不能进行正常工作以及适应办公室环境。
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Price rises change expectations of inflation, leading workers to bid for wage increases that preserve their buying power and firms to push through price increases, generating a vicious spiral.
价格上涨改变通胀预期，致使工人为维持购买力而要求涨工资，企业推动价格上涨，从而产生一个恶性工资-价格螺旋。

And what we know is that very often we enter a downward spiral, a vicious cycle when we go into this narrow and constrict mode.
我们知道经常会进入下行螺旋，一个恶性循环，当我们进入狭窄收紧的模式。
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First, investors are worried by the vicious spiral of a weakening economy, tottering banks and worsening government finances.
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