decline and fall

基本解釋

We are studying the decline and fall of ancient Rome.
我們正在研究古羅馬的衰亡。
THE decline and fall of Bear Stearns illustrates both an old truth and a new one.
貝爾斯登的下滑和倒下揭示了一個舊的和一個新的真理。
The decline and fall of the American car industry is relatively easy to summarise, and the Hummer is its reductio.
美國汽車業(yè)的衰亡相對比較容易概括縂結(jié)，悍馬正是美國汽車業(yè)的縮影。

Here are a couple of illustrations from his first novel, Decline and Fall (1928), just before his conversion to Catholicism.
FORBES: Picture This
Myers documents the decline and fall of biofuel plants throughout the northwest.
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Although Mr Ottaway is reluctant to write the prince's political obituary, this is a story with clear elements of decline and fall.
ECONOMIST: Prince Bandar bin Sultan was an envoy like no other