Hobbled by stagnation, secession, and wars of independence, the Ottoman Empire was by now staggering on the fringes of geopolitics, being known as " the sick man of Europe" .

由于经济停滞、分裂和独立战争，奥斯曼帝国摇摇晃晃地站在地缘政治的边缘，被称为“欧洲”。

He turned and looked at Dorian Gray with the eyes of a sick man.

他转过身，般的眼神着道连·格雷。

For many years the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had been the sick man of Europe.

多年来，波兰立陶宛联邦一直是欧洲的。

So has Germany become " the sick man of Europe" yet again?

德国是否再次沦为“欧洲”？

And really, Germany, if you like, from the one point of view, it is the strongest economy in the European Union, but it is also, as it is called, the sick man of Europe.

事实上， 德国从一个角度来，是欧盟中最强大的经济体，但同时它也被称作“欧洲的” 。

The last time Germany was in such a mess was the late 1990s, when the Economist labelled the country the sick man of the Euro.

上一次德国陷入如此混乱是在20世纪90年代末，当时《经济学》称该国为欧元区的。

European diplomats and commentators had been watching its decline for decades, and had taken to calling it the sick man of Europe.

欧洲的外交官和评论家们数十年来一直注视着它的衰落，并开始称之为“欧洲” 。

One of Broadway's many nicknames is the fabulous invalid, which comes from a Kaufman Hart play first produced in 1938.

百老汇众多昵称中有一个叫做“迷的”， 这一称呼源自1938年首次上演的一部考曼·哈特的戏剧。

The old remain, said Aggo. " The frightened, the weak, and the sick. And we who swore. We remain. "

" 老们留了下来，" 阿戈说，" 还有胆小鬼、弱者和，以及发过誓的我们。我们决不离开您。"

At the start of this century, Germany was often billed " the sick man of Europe" , but then it had two solid decades of growth.

本世纪初， 德国常被称为“欧洲” ，但随后却经历了长达二十年的稳健增长。

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

我进入阅览室的时候，是一个愉快而健康的。我走出阅览室的时候，却成了一个虚 弱而衰老的了。

It was a disastrous decision, the nail in the coffin for the sick man of Europe.

这是一个灾难性的决定，对欧洲而言，无疑是棺材上的最后一颗钉子。