the secular trend

The Standards of Skeletal Maturity of Hand and Wrist for Chinese-China 05. III. The Secular Trend of Skeletal Development in Chinese Children.

中国人手腕骨发育标准—中华05.III。中国儿童骨发育的长期趋势。

There are a lot of overlaps in science being done, and the secular trend is that the industry will continue to consolidate by the type of deal we're doing, or by an exchange of assets.

两家公司在科研方面有许多重叠之处。未来，医药行业的整合仍将继续，实现的方式要么是我们现在正在操作的交易，要么是资产交换的形式。

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。