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，通过灾难性地一击，将他们两人游移不定生命割断，而不是让他们像许多人那样，经过布满皱纹、被人遗忘、衰老月，把生命逐渐耗竭到枯燥无味尽头。

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

在宁静晨光里，就在他们前面，矗立着一艘西班牙大帆船，船体是白色、，周围满了羊齿植物和棕搁。

" They carry their rotten ideas everywhere."

“他们把他们思想带去所有地方。”

Windows fall out of rotten frames and wildlife recolonises towns.

窗户从框架中掉了下来，野生动物重新占领城镇。

In this world of death and rot and regret?

留在这个死气和怨恨连天世界吗？

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，我认为这是不堪策略。

Bad smells were signs of corruption and decay.

难闻气味是败和标志。

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

不敢相信我趴在一块木头上 完美。

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

首先，整个人生都被、无意义教义限制住了。

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年后这里成了一座鬼城，满是苏联时代房屋，工厂，公园及体育场。

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

帕斯没有让自己被碾碎，而是最终成为帮助推倒这座大厦人。

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.

它就像是在一块木头上雕刻出来，而雕刻者对人脸应该是怎么样只有一个模糊概念，对刻刀使用也不太在行。

She observes the ways in which primitive violence is increasingly being replaced with more gentle ways of conflict, and fantasizes about a future in which these old structures of conflict become fully obsolete.

她从原始暴力被越来越被更加温和冲突所代替中观察到了这种方式，并且幻想出一个完全摒弃了这些冲突未来。

We are at the party to fight against the old thoughts and things, and the young generations who were the ones to devote themselves in this fact.

我们是跟旧事物进行忘我斗争党，而总是青年首先投身到忘我斗争中去。”

But fewer fires led to denser, more flammable forests, packed with the combustible needles of young conifers and the tinder-dry branches of dead or dying trees.

然而火灾变少，森林却变得更加密集且易燃，因为那里满了叶子，可燃新生针叶林和枯萎干燥易燃树枝。

The expedition's aim was to take high-definition photos and video of history's most famous shipwreck and capture data to track the ship's decay.

这次探险目是为这艘历史上最著名沉船拍摄高清照片和视频，并捕捉数据来追踪这艘船过程。

The main character is presented as an independent young woman who rejects the gilded cage built around her by a decaying husband.

主人公是一个独立年轻女性，她拒绝丈夫在她周围建造镀金笼子。

" Of course, " said a famous lecturer – he of the French Revolution, who gilded each new decay with splendour –

“当然，”一个著名演说家——他是讲法国大革命，辉煌壮丽地给每一新情况涂金。

Now that the incorruption of this most fragrant ambergris should be found in the heart of such decay; is this nothing?

既然这不会坏、芳香至极龙涎香是在那之物最深处找到，难道这是无足轻重东西吗？