Maternity services were to be reduced as a consequenceof falling birth rates.
孕产服务因下降的出生率而将被削减。
《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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Two hundred people lost their jobs as a direct consequenceof the merger.
合并一事直接导致二百人失去了工作。
《牛津词典》
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In fact, price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an effortless consequenceof its own development, the price-fixing that it requires.