crumble to dust
基本解釋
- 化為烏有；垮掉
英漢例句
- Or will we crumble to dust, and, forgotten, become one with the desert?
或者，我們會化為烏有，而且，被人遺忘，變成沙漠的一部份。 - We keep it in a climate-controlled case and we hardly ever move it, because with any sudden shock it could just crumble to dust.
我們一直把它保存在嚴格控制氣候變化的展示臺里，幾乎不曾移動過； - “I shall penetrate you so thoroughly, ” he said, “that you will have the power of becoming rusty, and, if you wish it, to crumble into dust in one night.”
我將浸潤你的全身，使得你——如果你愿意的話——獲得一種力量，叫你一夜就把全身銹掉，化成灰塵。 - Indeed, the possibility that they might crumble to dust seems to be less of a concern than how nations will cope with the rise of so-called "megacities, " cities with populations of more than 10 million.
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