a secular trend

Even if the demand for accountants or computer programmers is rising on a secular trend, there will be failing firms that fire accountants and programmers.

即使对会计和程序员的需求在长期中是上升的，也会存在濒临倒闭企业解雇会计和程序员。

The downturn may have accelerated a secular jobs trend that had been masked by the low - to middle-skilled work that the housing boom created.

低迷可能加速了长期工作趋势的带来，而这种趋势在之前由于楼市繁荣创造的中低技能岗位而掩盖。

Secular trend is the value of the variable tends to increase or decrease over a long period of time.

长期趋势是指变量的值在一个长时期内所呈现的增加或减少的趋势。