downward mobility

基本解释

It could signal a long-term decline in living standards — downward mobility.
它標志著長期的生活水平降低，進而流動性減弱。
Second, compared with men, the percent of women flowing upward in society is lower but that of horizontal and downward mobility is higher, and social standing of women tends to further decline.
其次，從女性的社會流動趨勢來看，與男性相比，女性曏上流動的比例較低，而水平流動和曏下流動的比例較高，女性的社會地位有進一步下降的趨勢。
He's made himself drastically more susceptible to downward mobility by having an extra monthly bill to pay for car costs, and he's deprived himself of money he could have saved.
他已經讓自己非常有可能掉到社會底層。爲了汽車開銷每月要付出額外賬單。
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Turns out, downward mobility is an extraordinarily narrow way of thinking about making radical choices about how to live and why.
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If we occur to ourselves accurately as resourceful, we may find ourselves in fairly high-stakes or high-risk situations with a sense of plenty that makes a mockery of binaries like upward-versus-downward mobility.
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There may be some reasons not directly attributable to racism that explain the downward mobility of blacks, the decline in union jobs for example, but they are not the reasons proffered by Lexington.
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the movement of an individual, social group, or class to a lower status &rarrcompare upward mobility