In fact, any financial crisis is a process of gradual deterioration.

事实上，任何财务危机都是一个逐渐恶化的过程。

The gradual drying of the soil caused by its diminished ability to absorb water results in the further loss of vegetation, so that a cycle of progressive surface deterioration is established.

土壤吸收水分的能力减弱使土壤逐渐变得干燥，导致植被进一步减少，从而建立了一个渐进的地表退化循环。

The model produces a plausible scenario, through a sequence of effort inattentions, for the deterioration of a relationship in a gradual form, which seems to be typical according to data.

该模型提供了一个似乎是真的描述，在一连串努力疏忽之后，双方关系将以渐进的方式衰退。 根据有关数据来看，其似乎很典型。

Research has indicated that gradual environmental deterioration affects the very poor disproportionately; already bereft of resources, they have little capacity to re-establish themselves elsewhere.51

这方面的调查研究也表明，环境的长期衰退造成了这些环境移民的极度贫困，他们几乎没有能力在别的地方重建家园（51）。

Keratoconus is a deterioration of the structure of the cornea with gradual bulging from the normal shape to a cone shape.

圆锥角膜是一种角膜的结构退化，病发时患者角膜由正常情况下的圆形逐渐鼓胀成圆锥形。