Hope you're all doing well as the year winds down and exam crop up.

希望你们在年关即将到来各种考试接踵而来的这个时候能够一切顺利。

Things should be winding down around now.

这事应该接近尾声了。

The path winds down into the valley and then up to the ruins.

路径蜿蜒进入山谷，然后到达废墟。

Unemployment could surge to over 3m when the furlough scheme winds down.

休假计划结束后，失业率可能会飙升至300万以上。

Lombard Street winds down a hill and is often overrun by tourists.

伦巴底街蜿蜒而下，经常挤满了游客。

In California alone, strong winds downed trees and power lines in the San Francisco Bay area.

仅仅在加州, 旧金山湾地区的强风吹倒树木, 刮倒电线。

We have 'fresh', 'rattle', and 'wind down'.

我们有“新的”、“隆隆作响”和“逐步结束”。

Everyone feels like winding down in December.

每个人都想在十二月放松一下。

So there's tremendous political strife in the country as one presidency winds down and another one gears up.

于是，随着一位总统的任期结束，另一位总统的任期开始，美国发生了巨大的政治冲突。

In Afghanistan, the top U.S. commander formally stepped down today, as the U.S. withdrawal winds down by August 31.

阿富汗方面，美军最高指挥官今天正式下台，同时美军撤离行动将于8月31日结束。

Well, 'wind down' means that something is gradually ending.

“wind down”是指某事正在逐渐结束。

And 'wind down' — gradually end, often in stages.

还有“逐渐结束”——通常是指分阶段逐渐结束。

Meanwhile, it will wind down the pandemic-era bond purchasing program.

同时，将逐步结束疫情期间债券购买计划。

I was using depressants to wind down and go to sleep.

用镇抑剂来放松和助眠。

But basically, it starts when your winding down and your brain exhibits some alpha activity.

但基本上，睡眠开始于你放松身心的时候，此刻，你的大脑充满着 α 波的状态。

Public holidays are when we can finally have time to wind down.

公共假期是我们终于有时间放松的时候。

And Sweden will get the opposite of acceleration: Winding down.

瑞典就讲讲相反的：解压和减负。

And as our spring season winds down with one more week on the air, we're happy to have you watching.

我们春季的节目还有一周就要结束了，很高兴大家能持续关注我们的节目。

There are very strong winds down there, but they do not appear to be as destructive as was originally feared.

那里有非常强的风，但风力似乎没有最初担心的那样的破坏性。

'Wind down' is the verb we're looking at.

wind down 是我们今天要讲的动词。