secular trend

基本解释

What needs to be explored is not the validity of the secular trend, but the nature of the local influences working against it.
需要研究的竝不是這種長期趨勢是否真的存在，而是對這種趨勢不利的區域性影響具有什麽性質。
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Even if the demand for accountants or computer programmers is rising on a secular trend, there will be failing firms that fire accountants and programmers.
即使對會計和程序員的需求在長期中是上陞的，也會存在瀕臨倒閉企業解雇會計和程序員。
But as diet and health improved, children and adolescents have, on average, increased in height by about an inch and a half every 20 years, a pattern known as the secular trend in height.
但是隨著飲食和健康狀況的改進，兒童和青少年比20年前平均長高了約一個半英寸，這就是衆所周知的身高世俗趨勢。

He says a big secular trend is affecting the PC market, which is the things you can do with ARM.
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In the wake of the last major sideways secular trend, U.S. stocks barreled higher in a major long-term secular bull market from 1982-2000.
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The trends are much broader than this and although a single nuclear exchange or terrorist incident could skew the numbers, even such a horrific tragedy, Heaven forbid, would not skew the secular trend.
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長期趨勢
We have analyzed the secular trend and decadal variation of the features of southern/northern drought/flood during 1951-2003.
研究了1951-2003年我國南、北旱澇特征的長期趨勢和年代際變化。
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世俗化潮流