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衰退

shuāi tuì

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word

衰退 (shuāi tuì) means "to decline; to fall; to drop". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 衰退 means

1. to decline
2. to fall
3. to drop
4. to falter
5. a decline
6. recession (in economics)

The characters in 衰退

• 衰shuāi(bound form) to decay; to decline; to wane
• 退tuìto retreat; to withdraw; to reject; to return (sth); to decline

Example sentences

• 我们不能愁闷地看着这个城市就这样衰退下去。
  Wǒmen bù néng chóumèn de kàn zhe zhège chéngshì jiù zhèyàng shuāituì xiàqù.
  We can't just look on dejectedly while this city continues to go into decline.
• 经济萧条是一段时间内，当这样的经济活动普遍增长而造成的一种临时性的经济活动衰退。
  Jīngjìxiāotiáo shì yī duàn shíjiān nèi, dāng zhèyàng de jīngjìhuódòng pǔbiàn zēngzhǎng ér zàochéng de yīzhǒng línshí xìng de jīngjìhuódòng shuāituì.
  Recession is a temporary falling off of business activity during a period when such activity is generally increasing.
• 现在是 2025 年 8 月 3 日，露露岛。晚餐后，阳光下嫩绿的无花果，昨天腌制的甜醋，还有重新加热的阿尔弗雷多义面，我坐在阳台上，望着那棵针叶树。楼下静谧无声，街道空无一车，一片悠闲。我的冰镇青柠水在阳光下闪闪发光。最近，我常和那位法丹混血的 UFO 研究专家麦可聊天。我们谈论内心深处的事情：智慧型装置的迷醉，以及思维的衰退。他说，咖啡馆已经不再是咖啡馆了。人们忘记如何观察、如何驻足停留。我跟他讲起在日本的亚瑟，他会像僧侣凝视虚空一样，对着空白的墙壁发呆。最近，我让机器像诗人一样说话，它们真的做到了。它们模仿伊莉莎白时代的诗歌，以及塔加洛语民谣中那古老而忧伤的韵律。我沿着通往蒂姆霍顿咖啡店的小路采摘黑莓。我像个孩子似的喊道：「莫拉！」我的朋友莫拉，她血液里流着安地斯山脉的薄雾，她会笑的。今天，我买了黄柠檬。我本来想买青柠，但黄柠檬也可以。/ 黑莓的清晨 / 指尖残留无花果的痕迹 / 街道依然沉睡
  It's Lulu Island, 3 August 2025. After supper—green figs tender with sunlight, sweet vinegar from yesterday’s pickled jar, and reheated Alfredo—I sat on the balcony and watched the conifer. Stillness below, a street without cars, without haste. My lime water, iced, caught the light. Michael, the Franco-Danish ufologist, has been in my conversations lately. We speak of inner things: the trance of smart devices, the mind’s eye dwindling. He says cafés aren’t cafés anymore. People forget how to look, how to linger. I tell him of Arthur in Japan—how he'd stare into blank walls like a monk gazing at emptiness. Lately I ask machines to speak like poets, and they do. They mimic Elizabethan verses and the old wistful lilt of Tagalog ballads. I pick blackberries along the path to Tim Hortons. "¡Moras!" I shout like a child. My friend Mora, whose blood flows with Andes mist, would smile. Today, I bought lemons. I meant limes, but lemons are all right. / blackberry morning— / a fig's ghost on my fingers / and the street still sleeps

Words starting with 衰退

• 衰退期shuāi tuì qīrecession (in economics)

Words containing 衰退

• 经济衰退jīng jì shuāi tuì(economic) recession

Where 衰退 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · shù (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read shuāi tuì correctly.
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