China is facing a steep decline in the birth rate.
中国正面临出生率的急剧下降。
There is a steep rise in unemployment this month.
本月失业率急剧上升。
Xian is a city steeped in history
西安是座历史古城。
She helped me steep the tea in the hot water.
她帮我把茶泡在热水里。
The mountain trail was so steep that we had to climb it on all fours.
山路如此陡峭，我们不得不手脚并用往上爬。
The cost of living in this city has risen steeply over the past year.
这个城市的消费水平在过去一年里急剧上升。
She found the learning curve for her new job very steep.
她发现新工作的学习曲线非常陡峭，即难度很大。
The stock market experienced a steep decline after the unexpected news.
股市在收到意外消息后出现了大幅下跌。
The staircase leading to the attic is dangerously steep.
通往阁楼的楼梯非常陡峭，很危险。
The price of oil has increased at a steep rate in recent months.
最近几个月，油价以迅猛的速度上涨。
The steep cliffs along the coast provide nesting sites for many seabirds.
沿海的陡峭悬崖为许多海鸟提供了筑巢地。
He had to work hard to overcome his steep accent when he moved to London.
他搬到伦敦后，不得不努力克服自己浓重的口音。
The interest rates on some loans can be extremely steep, making repayment difficult.
一些贷款的利率非常高，使得还款变得困难。
The steep山坡提供了绝佳的滑雪条件。 (这座陡峭的山坡为滑雪提供了极好的条件。
The road passes over a steep mountain.
这条路翻越一架陡峭的高山。
This hill is too steep to ride upon a bicycle.
这山太陡，不能骑自行车上去。
Mo said Chinese online retailers have ramped up efforts to offer steep discounts and adopted low-price strategies to obtain a new breed of users and improve user loyalty and repurchase rates.
莫表示，中国在线零售商加大了提供大幅折扣的力度，并采取了低价策略来获得新一代用户，提高用户忠诚度和复购率。
This year's festival has seen major e-commerce platforms provide steep discounts and low-priced products to boost sales, with domestic brands becoming more popular among Chinese consumers.
今年的电影节上，各大电子商务平台提供了大幅折扣和低价产品来提高销售额，国产品牌在中国消费者中越来越受欢迎。
Chinese e-commerce giant JD said it will kick off the pre-sale for this year's Singles Day shopping carnival at 8 pm on Oct 23, one week earlier than in previous years, and offer steep discounts and shopping coupons on over 800 million products.
中国电子商务巨头京东表示，将于10月23日晚8点开启今年光棍节购物狂欢节的预售，比往年提前一周，并为超过8亿件商品提供大幅折扣和购物优惠券。
"It has quite steep slopes, which cause rapid elevation changes," said Zhu.
朱说：“这里的坡度很陡，海拔变化很快。”。
Amazon kicked off this year's Black Friday shopping festival on Friday, promising to offer steep discounts on nearly 2 million authentic products covering about 20,000 international brands from four sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany.
亚马逊于周五拉开了今年黑色星期五购物节的序幕，承诺为来自美国、英国、日本和德国四个网站的近200万件正品提供大幅折扣，涵盖约2万个国际品牌。
One part of the road is in an area of very steep terrain, along cliffs facing the ocean, and access is quite difficult for the builders, vehicles and machinery, Xiong said.
熊说，这条路的一部分位于地势非常陡峭的地区，沿着面向大海的悬崖，建设者、车辆和机械都很难进入。
Li Jiaqi, known as China's lipstick king for his feat of selling 15,000 lipsticks in just five minutes through livestreaming sessions, said L'Oreal Paris had advertised that customers stand to secure the steepest discount for a facial mask if they tuned in to Li's livestreaming sessions during a pre-sale for the Nov 11 campaign, China's largest shopping spree.
李佳琦因其通过直播在五分钟内卖出15000支口红而被称为中国口红之王。他表示，巴黎欧莱雅广告称，如果顾客在11月11日活动（中国最大的购物狂欢）的预售期间收看李的直播，他们将获得面膜的最大折扣。
No more than 30 bricklayers, with an average age at 50, work at a project to restore Great Wall's Jiankou section, one of the most dangerous and steepest sections, said Chen Yongmao, leader of the project while giving an example of lack of young labor.
项目负责人陈永茂举例说明年轻劳动力缺乏的问题时说，在修复长城箭口段这一最险峻的区域时，参与工作的瓦工不足30人，平均年龄50岁。
According to its first-quarter results, the China market has seen sales decrease at a steep double-digit rate.
根据其第一季度的业绩，中国市场销售额出现了大幅的两位数下降。
There has been a 16 percent fall in such funding worldwide－the second steepest quarterly decline in the past 10 years, following a 36 percent drop during the third quarter of 2012.