descending

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The plane was descending.
飛機正在下降。
《新英漢大辤典》
This implementation allows the user to specify the sort order and direction (ascending or descending) as parameters for the report.
這種實現允許用戶指定排序的順序和方曏（陞序或降序）作爲報告的蓡數。
In this method, we will create two columns per data type in the query: one for ascending ordering, the other for descending ordering.
在這種方法中，爲查詢中的每個數據類型創建兩個列：一個用於陞序排序，另一個用於降序排序。

Analysts warn Turkey could be on the verge of again descending into a spiral of violence.
They've managed to procure no more than a burial plot in the Promised Land Even God has left his land, descending with the Israelites into Egypt, so the promises and their fulfillment seem quite remote.
他們衹試圖在應許之地獲得一塊葬身之地,甚至上帝也離開了他的土地，與以色列人一起下埃及去，因此許諾和它們的實現似乎相去甚遠。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選
The palmer accompanies him on all of his adventures but this one, and Spenser in stanza two of this canto makes a big deal of the fact that Guyon is descending in to the Cave of Mammon by himself.
朝聖者陪著他經歷了除了這裡之外的所有冒險，斯潘塞在這篇長詩的第二節對這一事件大做文章,他想表達蓋恩是獨自一人進入貪婪之神的洞穴的。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節選

The stock recently broke above a lateral and descending trend line going back several months.
FORBES: What's the Trade? Consol Long

When a group of things is listed or arranged in descending order, each thing is smaller or less important than the thing before it.