衰落

The overriding lesson from history is that most irrigation-based civilizations fail," writes Sandra Postel in her compelling survey of the global water crisis, Pillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?"

桑德拉波斯特尔在其有名的全球水危机调查报告《沙之柱：灌溉奇迹还能维持吗？》中说：&最重要的历史教训是，大多数以灌溉为基础的文明已经衰落。&

There was a young flower in a desert where was always dried and sad-looking. It was growing by itself, enjoying everyday and saying to the Sun "When shall I be grown up?"

在一个周围充满着干燥与衰落景象的沙漠中，有一朵小花正绽放着……她孤单地生长着……快乐地过着每一天……她对太阳说：&我什么时候才能长大呀？&

Simulations in flat-faded application scenarios show that, the subspace method can achieve the same diversity order with the coherent reception, and outperforms the noncoherent decoder in existence with multiple successive space-time codes being decoded jointly.

平坦衰落信道环境中的仿真表明，子空间方法能够实现和相关接收相同的分集增益；当多个连续的空时码联合解码时，其性能优于现有的非相关解码方法。

It is by and large not for the faint of heart, especially during such turbulent times upon your world.

大体上它不是为了衰落的心脏，尤其在你们的世界处于这样狂暴的时期。

But then the suburbs, especially if they are fairly old, may have acquired all the characteristics of cities: a "downtown", swanky shops, the headquarters of a Fortune 500 company, maybe a mega-church, a theatre, a symphony orchestra and often an army of Latino migrants who have never been near a traditional ghetto in the city centre.

市中心衰落之后市郊部分，特别是那些历史够长的老市郊，可能已经具备了城市的所有特质：有一个&市中心&，时尚的豪华商店，财富500强企业的总部，也许还会有一个雄伟的大教堂，一家剧院，一家音乐厅；多半还有一大群从来没有接近过市中心传统贫民区的拉美移民。

The classic form of the tragic hero always has one flaw that ultimately brings about his downfall.

构成典型的悲剧英雄的重要因素总是一个足以导致他们最终走向衰落的缺点。

Yet years of disinvestment in the area, led by the fleeing of the movie studios, took its toll.

多年来资金的撤出，以及电影业的撤离，使它们一步步衰落了。

With the social development in the seventeenth-century Holland,the close tie between the social context of the interior paintings and the Dutchmen shortens the distance between the art and the reality——a more lively and unique cultural relationship between the art of the interior paintings and the everyday life of the average Dutchmen.

这是一个对于对象和尊严的思考不再支配绘画艺术的时代，宗教题材被贬低到次要位置，即便是涉及这类题材的地方，也只是作为叙事中的事件，而不再是作为事实来处理，寓言和象征的人物衰落了。

The gentrification movement has led to changes in the spatial str...

绅士化运动导致了美国城市空间结构乃至整个大都市区空间结构的变化，对于阻止中心城市的进一步衰落发挥了积极作用。

The walled garden appeared in the Europe in the middle ages and gained great development in the late 19th century. It started to be neglected in the early 20th century due to the development of glasshouses.

墙园于中世纪后在欧洲开始出现，19世纪末达到发展的鼎盛时期，20世纪前半叶，由于温室技术的发展，墙园开始走向衰落。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。