死亡螺旋

A death spiral had begun.

死亡螺旋开始了。

Now, people have to try to unscare them before this thing becomes a self-perpetuating downward spiral.

现在，人们必须在这变成自我永动的向下死亡螺旋之前，试图使自己镇定下来。

The Arctic Ocean´s sea ice is in a´death spiral´ due to rising temperatures, scientists said in 2008.

在2008年，科学家说，北冰洋的海冰是在“死亡螺旋”中，是由于气温上升的因素。

The newspaper industry is in a downward death spiral, having been severely impacted by new technologies, the ubiquity of Internet access, and a rise in citizen journalism.

报业正处在一个向下的死亡螺旋中，已经严重地被新技术，无处不在的网络、和不断提高草根新闻挤压。

Received opinion holds, in the phrase of Auguste Comte, a 19th-century social scientist, that´demography is destiny´ and that Europe is doomed by its death-spiral population Numbers.

公认的看法认为，用19世纪社会学家奥古斯特·孔德的话来说就是“人口统计学是天命”，而欧洲是由其死亡螺旋式的人口数字注定的。