So when small farms fail, whole economies fail.

所以当小农场败的时候，整个经济就会败。

Enlightened visa rules could revive declining towns.

开明的签证规则可能会重振败的城镇。

But today, the tradition of getting a quick shine is weakening.

但在今天，擦鞋的传统正在败。

Failed states were once poor almost by definition.

些败的家曾经都很穷困。

Then his marriage failed, his career burned out and his drinking became serious.

后来他婚姻破裂，事业败，并且酗酒严重。

I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 11.5 YEARS, AND it's declined.

我来儿已经11年半了，里已经败了。

The deal closes the final chapter in the company's rapid decline.

笔交易意味着家公司快速败的最后篇章落下帷幕。

Why start something if it's probably going to fail?

既然一个事情有走向败的可能，那为什么要开始呢？

Or we can wake up. Realize we aren't evolving upwards, but rather falling down.

要么觉醒，意识到自己并不是在向前进而是在不断败。

Some European politicians have interpreted Airbus's move as the latest depressing symbol of Europe's decline.

一些欧洲政的一举动视为欧洲败的最新标志，令人十分沮丧。

Like everybody else's. Subject to entropy, decay and eventual death.

跟普通人没什么两样 经历着万物的成长 败和最终的死亡。

Astronomers think it's a failed dwarf galaxy that lacked the requisite mass to produce stars.

天文学家们认为它是缺乏必要存在物而不能产生新星的已经败的矮星星系。

State failure, it appears, does not necessarily go hand in hand with other human woes, such as poverty.

似乎政权败并不总是与人类其它灾难——例如贫穷——共进退。

He stood for a rotten borough and he took on a sinecure in government himself.

他代表着一个有名无实的败选区，并在政府中为自己谋取了一个领干薪的闲差。

We need to build something that will last, Papa, not stand by and watch it crumble into dust.

我们得构建能持久的产业，爸爸，而不是袖手旁观庄园的败。

About five decades ago, the core values that make America great began to bring America down.

那就是，大约50年前，曾经成就了美的核心价值观开始美推上了败之路。

IMMIGRATION is a sensitive subject at the best of times, and this is not one of them.

即便是在光景好的年代，移民也是个敏感话题，更何况如今光景败。

In these roles, great goddesses control the cycles of growth, decay and rebirth: the seasons.

在些角色中，伟大的女神掌控着生长、败和重生的周期，也就是四季。

So what were the stones telling him? '' This is what happens to decadent empires, '' they said.

那么些石头究竟告诉了他什么呢？他们说：“就是败的帝的下场”。

So um...and it's good that they showed us because the technology crashed and burned Xerox, so...they used to call...-Why?

还好他们让我们参观了，后来因为技术败，施乐被拖垮了，所以...他们以前经常...-为什么？