slow-down

基本解释

If I'm building HTML5 apps, why should we require the download (and slow-down) of scripts that help out older browsers?
如果我在開發HTML5應用，爲什麽我們需要下載（以及緩慢地）腳本來幫助兼容舊有瀏覽器呢？
The visibility into rules provided to business users empowers them to make rapid changes without the slow-down inherent in IT cycles.
曏業務用戶提供的槼則可見性支持他們快速進行更改，不必受制於 IT 周期的緩慢循環。
The Economist's dollar industrials index fell by 3% this week as investment funds sold commodities on fears of a slow-down in economic growth in the wake of a world credit squeeze.
爲防止經濟增長下滑所應起的全球信貸緊縮，投資基金售出工業商品，這使本周經濟學家美元工業指數下降了3%。

That ratio may have been higher in the nineteenth century; it's gradually trending down, but it's a slow-moving thing.
在19世紀這個比率要高一些,然後逐漸下降,但這是個緩慢變化的過程
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節選

But would a substantial slow-down or even an outright recession spread over to emerging markets?
FORBES: Emerging Markets cannot escape a global recession
By now, however, the economy has slow-down and the market has discounted the prospect of expiring drugs.
FORBES: Pharmaceuticals Trading Near 52-Week Highs
That FedEx will tamp down its Asian business reflects the slow-down in growth that the region faces.
FORBES: FedEx: Disappointing Q3 Profit Sends Another Warning About Slowing Asian Growth

If something slows down or if something slows it down, it starts to move or happen more slowly.
If someone slows down or if something slows them down, they become less active.
&rarrsee also slowdown