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The plane was descending.
飞机正在下降。
《新英汉大辞典》
This implementation allows the user to specify the sort order and direction (ascending or descending) as parameters for the report.
这种实现允许用户指定排序的顺序和方向（升序或降序）作为报告的参数。
In this method, we will create two columns per data type in the query: one for ascending ordering, the other for descending ordering.
在这种方法中，为查询中的每个数据类型创建两个列：一个用于升序排序，另一个用于降序排序。

Analysts warn Turkey could be on the verge of again descending into a spiral of violence.
They've managed to procure no more than a burial plot in the Promised Land Even God has left his land, descending with the Israelites into Egypt, so the promises and their fulfillment seem quite remote.
他们只试图在应许之地获得一块葬身之地,甚至上帝也离开了他的土地，与以色列人一起下埃及去，因此许诺和它们的实现似乎相去甚远。
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The palmer accompanies him on all of his adventures but this one, and Spenser in stanza two of this canto makes a big deal of the fact that Guyon is descending in to the Cave of Mammon by himself.
朝圣者陪着他经历了除了这里之外的所有冒险，斯潘塞在这篇长诗的第二节对这一事件大做文章,他想表达盖恩是独自一人进入贪婪之神的洞穴的。
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The stock recently broke above a lateral and descending trend line going back several months.
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When a group of things is listed or arranged in descending order, each thing is smaller or less important than the thing before it.