经济增速放缓，贸易额急剧下降，失业人口陡增，社会稳定面临压力。

Its growth has slowed down, its trade dropped sharply, unemployment surged all of a sudden and pressure is mounting on social stability.

首先，2008年上半年食品和能源价格的陡增缩减了各公司的利润和消费者的购买力。

First, the surge in food and energy prices in the first half of 2008 squeezed companies' profits and consumers' purchasing power.

工厂的氡公害，要是考虑到科罗拉多高原铀矿陡增的肺癌风险，我们已经意识到许多年了。

workplace hazard of radon has been recognized for many years, given the elevated lung cancer risk among uranium miners on the Colorado Plateau.[6]The

即使对创业界里够令人晕眩的标准本来说，这也是一个让人屏息的陡增。

That would be a breathtakingly steep multiple, even by the giddy standards of the start-up world.