Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant's sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to department stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.

Priestly解释道，这个助理的外套竟然是深蓝色的，这个款式从时装秀场沦落到百货商场再走上打折货摊，毫无疑问，这蠢丫头在那里淘到了那件衣服。

And the story of Boleyn, a glittering queen tamed to a “small voice, empty of everything except politeness”, provides a better narrative arc than Cromwell's clamber to the top, and a more grimly dramatic conclusion.

博曾经光芒万丈，但却沦落到“说话轻声细语，除了礼节一无所有”的田地，比起克伦威尔攀龙附凤的经历，博的故事被叙述得更加跌宕起伏，其戏剧性的结尾也更加悲凉。

If I was lucky, I would've been thrown in the Tower of London. If I was unlucky, I probably would've ended up a scullery maid. What a dream that I've just destroyed for myself!

幸运的话，我会被丢到伦塔里。倒霉的话，我可能会沦落成一个女帮厨。好一个我自己毁灭的梦想啊!

I can't believe we ended up at a human petting zoo.

不敢相信我沦落到来人类动物园。

I think one reason is that it was decided that actually nobody has the right to take life even if they, themselves have taken life, cuz in the end this makes you no better than the perpetrator.

我认为一个原因是，国家决定任何人都没有权利剥夺他人的生命，即使这些人自己已经夺去了别人的生命，因为终你会沦落得和行凶者没什么两样。

How has this dish, once emblematic of Britishness, come to such a sorry state?

这道曾经象征着英国特色的菜肴怎么会沦落到如此糟糕的地步?

Okay, this is what I've been reduced to?

我已经沦落到干这种事了吗？

I can't believe this is who we've become.

难以置信，我竟沦落到这般地步。

I didn't have any support or job and I ended up here, so I smoke.

我没有任何支持，也没有工作，沦落到这里，所以我抽烟。

How many mistakes must he have made to end up in this position?

他到底犯了多少错误才会沦落到这个地位上？

Little did I expect the rich man to be reduced to begging.

我一点都没料到那个富翁会沦落至行乞。

If you lose your livelihood you could end up on the breadline.

如果你丢去了你谋生的手段，那你会沦落到靠着救济过日子。

And Raymond got all the confidence to go shopping in his pajamas.

而雷蒙德沦落到穿着睡衣去购物。

Is that what you want for yourself?

你想要沦落于此吗？

It's the young who need jobs, or could end up living outdoors.

是年轻人需要工作，不然就可能会沦落街头。

Was this normal? Was I concerned? Should he be?

这种现象正常吗？我有漠不关心吗？他应该沦落至此吗？

In Accra, Amoah was quickly reduced to scavenging and begging.

在阿克拉，阿莫亚很快沦落到拾荒乞讨的地步。

Finally, it reached the point where I just stood around crying, Stan says.

“，我沦落到随地哭泣的地步。”斯坦说。

How you ended up in that bed.

你如何沦落至此。

If I looked out only for myself, I would have let you drown!

如果我只为自己好，我就让你去沦落了！