1.描述时间点或时间段

（1）时期泛指 :over the period XXX to XXX, over the years XXX to XXX, from XX to xx; over/during the past XX years; in the last XX years(最近X年)， over the last 15 to 20 years. in the next XX years, during a XX-year/month/week period, throughout.., all the way through, for the year..XXX. 

(2) 时期特指：during the same period, over the period in question, over/during the period studied, for the rest of the periods studied, in the two subsequent periods, in the following period, all the way through, 

(3)连续下降/上升的某个时期：it is the second/third/fourth consecutive quarter/year/month/week that XXX has fallen 

(4) 时间点: until, by the year XXX, since, from the year XXX, up to now, at a given moment, over the period ended on xx/ended in XX

(5)年代：during the 1980s; during the 70s and 80s., 

2.开头： this graph/report describes/outlines/shows/compare… with…/suggests,

3.总趋势句型

(1)If we look at the growth in…, we can see there is a steady increase in XX from.. to…/a rise in XX of XXX…

(2)from the graph, we can see there is…./ if we taking the XX first, we can see that there is …

(3)XX was on consecutive growth on the whole over the period in question (except… ) 

(4)XX shows a relatively steady/upward/downward trend in the last XX years.

(5)XX shows a trajectory of growth/fall….

(6)xx, on the other hand, shows a different trend. 

(7)XXX has been growing consistently with XX in the past XX years. 

(8)XXX witnessed/saw some rise and fall/fluctuations over the period…

(9)during the same period, XX also rose, but fluctuated greatly. 

(10)XX didn’t vary much and remained just over/below xx Or between..and..

(11)XX shows the same performance/trend although at level 4bn higher than imports. 

4. 增长幅度、增长额

(1).., there is a rise in XX of XX/by xx%/from..to…

(2)The figure shows a rise of XX within the whole period and no fluctuations are to be remarked. 

(3)XX rose from…to…, suffering minor fluctuations all the way through. 

(4)XX increased slightly/rose steadily. etc , ending the period around XX over their starting level. 

5.  最大涨/跌幅，最高点，最低点

(1) XXX  with the biggest increase/decrease coming between…and…,  

(2) It went up to the (7-year etc.) peak at….in…. /

(3) The XXX peaked at.. in…./reached/hit a peak in …./peaking at…

(4) The XX rose to the highest, climbed to a seven-month high, (price etc.)advanced to a record $1000 on…., 

(5)the XX rose/surge/climb to XXX, the highest since….

(6)骤升shot-up, surge, rocket, upsurge, uplift, proliferation soar, boom 骤降：slump, plunge, plummet(vi), nose-dive vi 

6.  起始点

(1)starting off at…./from,  sales will increase to.. during…, and remain stable at during…, only to decrease to… during. 

(2)During XXX, it started around XX in the first quarter…

7.  典型数据/区间

(1)Profits will shop up dramatically to 2,000 in 2004, from which it will go up steadily from year to year…

(2)It will go down to the lowest at …in … where it will begin to pick up/rebound/

(3)From 1985 to 1997, XXX were between XX and XXX. 

(4)After… the XX increased/decreased significantly. 

(5)the xxx rose up steadily until….

(6)however, there are some fluctuations to this general/within this general trend, for example….