The place had a shabby, miserable air; the window displays consisted of a few chipped dummies with their wigs askew, standing at random and modelling fashions at least ten years out of date.

看上去衰败冷清，橱窗里只有几个破裂的假人，歪戴着假发，姿态各异，穿的是至少十年以前的服装。

Enlightened visa rules could revive declining towns.

开明的签证规则可能会重振衰败的城镇。

Astronomers think it's a failed dwarf galaxy that lacked the requisite mass to produce stars.

天文学们认为是缺乏必要存在物而不能产生新星的已经衰败的矮星星系。

Despite Gorbachev's efforts, the creeping decrepitude of the Soviet Union becomes everyone's problem with the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.

尽管戈尔巴乔夫做出了努力，1986年的切尔诺贝利核事故还是让苏衰败的问题变成了举国关注的难题。

Why start something if it's probably going to fail?

既然一个事情有走向衰败的可能，那为什么要开呢？

Scholars even believe that it is the most powerful civilization to have ever existed on earth—more powerful than the US, than Europe, than any modern civilization, but it fell, and so too will the west.

有专甚至认为，是迄今为止最强盛的国，远超美国、欧洲、或任何一个现代国，衰败了，西方也会如此。

Or we can wake up. Realize we aren't evolving upwards, but rather falling down...we just have screens in our faces so we don't see where we're heading.

要么觉醒，意识到自己并不是在向前进而是在不断衰败。我们把电子屏幕摆在面前，所以看不到前路。

Yes – the artists are predominantly young black men and often cite the decaying tower blocks they grew up in as an inspiration for the urban style of music.

是的，伦敦地下乐艺术主要是年轻的黑人男性，他们在衰败的高层建筑中长大，他们经常从中获得这种城市风格音乐的灵感。

Factors including political corruption, economic crises, and class conflict led to the empire's decay from within while invasions and other military threats caused it to break down from outside.

包括政治腐败、经济危机和阶级矛盾等因素，导致帝国从内部衰败，而外族入侵和其他军事威胁导致帝国从外部崩塌。

We will never let our country fall.

我们绝不会让国衰败。

So when small farms fail, whole economies fail.

所以当小农场衰败的时候，整个经济就会衰败。

Or we can wake up. Realize we aren't evolving upwards, but rather falling down.

要么觉醒，意识到自己并不是在向前进而是在不断衰败。

I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 11.5 YEARS, AND it's declined.

我来这儿已经11年半了，这里已经衰败了。

State failure, it appears, does not necessarily go hand in hand with other human woes, such as poverty.

似乎政权衰败并不总是与人类其灾难——例如贫穷——共进退。

But today, the tradition of getting a quick shine is weakening.

在今天，擦鞋的传统正在衰败。

He stood for a rotten borough and he took on a sinecure in government himself.

他代表着一个有名无实的衰败选区，并在政府中为自己谋取了一个领干薪的闲差。

Like everybody else's. Subject to entropy, decay and eventual death.

跟普通人没什么两样 经历着万物的成长 衰败和最终的死亡。

The deal closes the final chapter in the company's rapid decline.

这笔交易意味着这公司快速衰败的最后篇章落下帷幕。

Then his marriage failed, his career burned out and his drinking became serious.

后来他婚姻破裂，事业衰败，并且酗酒严重。

For example, his pride was the downfall of his career.

例如，他的骄傲导致了事业的衰败。