Sterling went into free fall.

英镑陷入了自由跌落。

The price did a free fall.

价格发生了自由跌落。

It was in a free fall, and it was a very scary period.

它正处于自由下滑的状态，这是一个令人恐慌的阶段。

Share prices have gone into free fall.

股价猛跌不止。

Regardless, all these complex measures had the same psychological purpose: to reassure people that the free fall would stop and, thereby, curb the fear that would perpetuate a free fall.

无论如何，所有这些复杂的措施都有相同的心理目的：让人们相信自由落体运动将会停止，从而抑制人们对自由落体运动持续下去的恐惧。

What exactly is free fall?

何为自由落体？

This is the plane while it is in free fall.

这就是在自由落体的飞机。

And if I cut the cable completely you go into free fall.

若剪断电梯钢缆，还是自由落体运动。

Pharr enjoyed a minute of free fall as the cold air rushed by.

法尔经历了一分钟的自由落体，尽情享受着迎面而来的清新空气。

It means this tennis ball... while it is in free fall, it has no weight.

再比如说这个网球。，自由落体过程中它没有重量。

In the glacial realm of sociological change, that amounts to a free fall.

从社会学变化的宏观领域来说，这是一个非常明显的下降。

Meanwhile, the church's relatively liberal mainstream is almost in free fall.

同时，教会相对自由的主流几乎是在做自由落体式下滑。

Free fall is when the forces acting upon you are exclusively gravitational.

自由落体是指，唯一作用力是重力的情况。

The free market, touted as the best way to run the world, is currently in free fall.

自由市场，曾被吹捧为经营世界的最佳方式，眼下正处在自由下滑状态。

The announcement threw the emirate and the global credit markets into a vertiginous free fall.

这一消息将这个酋长国和全球信贷市场一起抛入空中，进入了令人晕头转向的自由坠落状态。

Without their intervention, it would not open on Monday, an event guaranteed to send markets into free fall.

没有他们的介入，这家公司周一就无法营业，并且这一事件被充分保证，将使下周市场暴跌。

They say there should be no tax increases at all while the economy is in free fall. Once again, Senator kyl.

他们说，在经济下滑无法控制时，不应该增加税率。

The stock market was in free fall and the publishing industry was going through a lot of trials and tribulations.

那时候，股市一落千丈，出版业正面临重重考验和磨难。

And the cost of computing power continues to free fall, which is a good sign for any enterprise setting up shop in silicon.

计算能力的成本持续自由下降，这对任何建立了网上销售的企业来说都是个好的征兆。

In late September figures showed that the American housing market was in free fall, with both sales and prices plunging.

9月底公布的数字表明美国房屋市场是在直跌，房屋销售及房价指标都在下跌。

Meanwhile, foreign demand for Chinese goods is in free fall and domestic demand is sluggish, leaving high excess capacity.

与此同时，海外市场对中国商品的需求大幅下降，而本土需求仍增长迟缓，这导致了严重的产能过剩。

It will become way heavier than it was before and then it will even be bounced back up in the air and it goes again into free fall.

此时重量比平时大很多，然后它还会，弹起到空中，并再次做自由落体运动。

Nor do I think the American university has gone into free fall since 1987, when Dean Rosovsky estimated it to be the world's best.

我不认为这所美国大学是从1987年以后开始急剧衰落的，那个时候哈佛大学文理学院院长罗索夫斯基还认为它是全世界最好的大学呢。

Starbucks' day-to-day store traffic was "in free fall," Schultz recalls, tumbling to levels not seen in the company's 40-year history.

舒尔茨回顾道，星巴克每日店内人流量“像自由落体运动般”，下跌至该公司40年来所未见的低位。

All of which seems to have led to a bottoming out of Mr Sarkozy's approval ratings, which had been in free fall over the past two years.

所有这些看起来似乎都能使得萨科齐在过去两年中一直自由落体的支持率走出谷底。

In America consumer spending is no longer in free fall and the housing market, where the trouble first broke out, shows some signs of stabilising.

而在美国，消费者的支出不再直线下降了，危机发源地的房地产市场也显示出些许稳定的迹象。

"You had the guts to make the tough calls that stopped the [economic] free fall, and saved our country from a second Great Depression," he said.

他说：“你有勇气做出了阻止经济继续下滑的艰难决定，使得我们的国家没有陷入第二次大萧条。”