Misfortune had struck them gracefully, cutting off their erratic histories with a catastrophic dash, instead of, as with many, attenuating each life to an uninteresting meagreness, through long years of wrinkles, neglect, and decay.

厄运很客气地降临到他们身上，通过灾难性地击，将他们两人游移不定的生命割断，而不是让他们像许多人那样，经过布满皱纹、被人遗忘、衰老腐朽的漫长岁月，把生命逐渐耗竭到枯燥无味的尽头。

Before them, surrounded by ferns and palm trees, white and powdery in the silent morning light, was an enormous Spanish galleon.

在宁静的晨光里，就在他们前面，矗立着艘西班船，船体是白色、腐朽的，周围长满了羊齿植物和棕搁。

" They carry their rotten ideas everywhere."

“他们把他们的腐朽思想带去所有地方。”

The woodwork in the house was rotten throughout.

这间屋内的木制品全部腐朽了。

Windows fall out of rotten frames and wildlife recolonises towns.

窗户从腐朽的框架中掉了下来，野生动物重新占领城镇。

Or we may feel that we have come to a resolute new political certainty: that society is totally corrupt and human nature inherently selfish.

抑或我们觉得，我们悟出了坚定且确定的新颖政治结论：社会彻底腐朽，人类天生自私。

In this world of death and rot and regret?

留在这个死气腐朽和怨恨连天的世界吗？

I've watched a lot of companies do that and I think that's the rotten strategy.

我看过很多公司这么做，我认为这是腐朽不堪的策略。

Oh how rotten this world is, thought The Fox.

哦，这个世界多么腐朽啊，狐狸想。

Bad smells were signs of corruption and decay.

难闻的气味是腐败和腐朽的标志。

I can't believe I'm on this crickety piece of wood. Perfect.

不敢相信我趴在块腐朽的木头上 完美。

Well, for starters, your life is hemmed in by ancient, pointless rules.

首先，整个人生都被腐朽、无意义的教义限制住了。

But I shall lie alone, mother, within the mouldering grave.

母亲啊，而我却孤零零地躺在腐朽的墓穴之中。

30 years later, it's a ghost town, with rotting Soviet-era houses, factories, parks and gyms.

30年后这里成了座鬼城，满是苏联时代腐朽的房屋，工厂，公园及体育场。

Kramarsyck said of the effort, " It's 'lemonade out of lemons.'"

克拉马尔西克谈到这项努力时，说：“这是‘化腐朽为神奇’。”

It's like a farmer's almanac for non-farm stuff.

就是说在这件情上你绝对可以化腐朽为神奇。

Oh, she's rotten, all right, but she's not rotting .

腐朽不堪 没错 可她还没死绝。

From death to decay then to vital rebirth, the cycle repeats endlessly.

从死亡到腐朽，再到生机勃勃，树木在漫长的生死循环中。

Rather than let herself be ground down, Parks would wind up being the one who helped tear the whole rotten edifice down.

帕克斯没有让自己被碾碎，而是最终成为帮助推倒这座腐朽厦的人。

It looked as though it had been carved out of weathered wood by someone who had only the vaguest idea of what human faces are supposed to look like, and was none too skilled with a chisel.

它就像是在块腐朽的木头上雕刻出来的，而雕刻者对人脸应该是怎么样只有个模糊的概念，对刻刀的使用也不太在行。