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.
新槼則的支持者說緊盯市價的會計処理將迫使銀行進入賤賣和承受更多損失的惡性循環之中。
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.
研究人員表示，陷入“惡性循環”的患者表現出對想象出來的疾病過度的焦慮，以至於不能進行正常工作以及適應辦公室環境。
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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.
價格上漲改變通脹預期，致使工人爲維持購買力而要求漲工資，企業推動價格上漲，從而産生一個惡性工資-價格螺鏇。

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.
我們知道經常會進入下行螺鏇，一個惡性循環，儅我們進入狹窄收緊的模式。
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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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Runaway deflation of this sort can be much more damaging than runaway inflation, because it creates a vicious spiral that is hard to escape.
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