查询词典 crumbling

SEOUL, South Korea — For half a century, a dark tunnel of crumbling concrete encased some five kilometers of a placid stream bisecting this bustling city.

将这个熙来攘往的都市一分为二的这条宁静河流，半个世纪以来，约有5公里被包覆在一条破烂、黑暗的水泥孔道中。

One of his favourite caricatures is "The Crumbling Parliament" by Steve Bell.

他最喜欢的一幅漫画是史蒂夫·贝尔的&崩溃的国会&。

It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's course at the neighboring cross-roads; the Rue Plumet was the desert; and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great crimped plants, with large leaves of pale green cloth, lizards, beetles, uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths of the earth and to reappear between those four walls a certain indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly where she diffuses herself at all, in the ant as well as in the eagle, to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World.

巴黎的铺石路白白在那一带围绕，华伦街上的那些典雅富丽的府第相隔才两步路，残废军人院的圆顶近在咫尺，众议院也不远，勃艮第街上和圣多米尼克街上的那些软兜轿车白白地在那一带炫耀豪华，驶来驶去，黄色的、褐色的、白色的、红色的公共马车也都白白地在那附近的十字路口交织奔驰，卜吕梅街却但是冷清清的；旧时财主们的死亡，一次已成过去的革命，古代豪门望族的崩溃、迁徒、遗忘，四十年的抛弃和寡居，已足使这个享受过特权的地段重新生满了羊齿、锦葵、霸王鞭、蓍草、长茅草，还有那种叶子宽大、颜色灰绿、斑驳的高大植物，蜥蜴、蜣螂、种种仓皇急窜的昆虫，使那种无可言喻的蛮荒粗野的壮观从土壤深处滋长起来，再次展现在那四道围墙里，使自然界？？阻扰着人类渺小心机的、随时随地在蚂蚁身上或雄鹰身上都肆意孳息的自然界，在巴黎的一个陋劣的小小园子里，如同在新大陆的处女林中那样，既犷悍又庄严地炫耀着自己。

Beside the chapel, one wing of the chateau, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say.

古堡的侧翼仍屹立在那小礼拜堂的旁边。

We were both attracted to the half-abandoned, crumbling houses occupied only by senior citizens, many practicing ancient, outdated crafts like the hatchet-wielding carpenter and the woman handcrafting bamboo wicker furniture.

我和叶晨都被那些只有老人还在居住的古旧老宅所吸引。许多老人在从事诸如传统木工这样的古老、过时的手工艺，女人则在手编竹柳家俱。

Indeed, these tensions are likely to intensify at this time of worldwide economic distress, with financial markets and economic activity around the world crumbling and economies increasingly hunkering down to protect and insulate themselves as the aftershocks of the crisis reverberate around the globe.

确实，这些紧张局势可能会因为全球经济压力加剧，在全球经济压力下金融市场和世界各地的经济活动都被减弱，各经济体也在经济危机震撼全球后的余震中日益静待其变来保护和隔离自己。

The work of repairing our crumbling roads and bridges, and our dangerously deficient dams and levees.

我们的崩溃修复道路和桥梁的工作，我们的危险缺乏水坝和防洪堤。

Our addiction to foreign oil or our crumbling roads, bridges, and levees.

我们对海外原油的依赖或者我们摇摇欲坠的道路、桥梁和堤坝。

The work of repairing our crumbling roads and bridges, and our dangerously deficient dams and levees.

也包括，修建我们破损的道路和桥梁以及不过完善的危险的大坝和码头。

About five miles across, it has 500 years' worth of crumbling mausoleums. Children beg on the graves of the recently dead.

墓地有五英里之长，有些岩块剥落的墓葬已经有五百年的历史，有孩子在新近葬下的墓前乞讨。

I want to be a big fish in a small pond.

我要做一条在小池塘里的大鱼。

While the software functioned well, we did not feel the same about their customer support!

虽然该软件运行良好，我们没有同样的感觉他们的客户支持！