downward mobility

基本解释

It could signal a long-term decline in living standards — downward mobility.
它标志着长期的生活水平降低，进而流动性减弱。
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，从女性的社会流动趋势来看，与男性相比，女性向上流动的比例较低，而水平流动和向下流动的比例较高，女性的社会地位有进一步下降的趋势。
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.
他已经让自己非常有可能掉到社会底层。为了汽车开销每月要付出额外账单。
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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