试图取悦观众对艺术家来说无疑是自取灭亡。
Trying to please an audience is the kiss of death for an artist.
我们会再活两千年，还是会灭亡？
Will we last another two thousand years or will we wipe ourselves out?
他结婚的那个早晨就会带给她灭亡，她会变成海上的泡沫。
His wedding morning would bring death to her, and she would change into the foam of the sea.
小心地把我们珍贵的文物放在纸上或卡片上，这样做毫无意义，这会加速它们的灭亡。
There is no point whatsoever in carefully placing our valuable artifacts in paper or card that is going to hasten their demise.
小心地把我们珍贵的文物放在纸上或卡片上的这种做法毫无意义，只会加速它们的灭亡。
There is no point whatsoever in carefully placing our valuable artifacts in paper or cards that is going to hasten their demise.
但是如果他这样做，他也许就会加速自己国家的灭亡。
But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country.
俗话说：没有记忆，国家就会灭亡。
As the old saying goes: a nation is lost without its memories.
她惶惑不安，踉踉跄跄地跟在婷咔的后面，飞向灭亡。
Bewildered, and now staggering in her flight, she followed Tink to her doom.
这几个物种已经在我们的地球上存在了数百万年，但是官方称2018年它们已经陆续灭亡。
They had been on our planets for millions of years, but 2018 was the year several species officially died off forever.
罗马帝国灭亡后，在欧洲，第一个按照复杂的礼节规范私人生活行为的社会，是12世纪法国的普罗旺斯。
After the fall of Rome, the first European society to regulate behaviour in private life in accordance with a complicated code of etiquette was twelfth-century Provence, in France.
尽管在罗马帝国灭亡后的城市崩溃的几个世纪里，教堂的仪式一直保持着人们对计时的兴趣，但教堂的时间是自然的时间。
Although church ritual had sustained an interest in timekeeping throughout the centuries of urban collapse that followed the fall of Rome, church time was nature's time.
动辄肆无忌惮地为抢地盘大打出手，岂不是自取灭亡？
At every turn unbridled ground roughhouses to grab territory under one's control, be court destruction?
但当不义者在愤怒中背弃了智慧，遂怒杀兄弟而自取灭亡。
But when the unjust went away from her in his anger, he perished by the fury wherewith he murdered his brother.
另一个重要区别是：恐龙不知道是什么击中了它们，它们对自己的灭亡不负责任。
Another key difference: dinosaurs didn't know what hit them, and played no role in their own demise.
如果我们不想想办法，简直是自取灭亡。你的意思是要我们坐视不管吗？
We're cutting our own throats if we don't do something. Are you saying we should just do nothing?
违反它赖以存在的行为，就是自取灭亡，何况根本不存在的东西并不能创造任何东西。
Violation of the act by which it exists would be self-annihilation; and that which is itself nothing can create nothing.
但如果转让更多的权力给欧盟，那无异于自取灭亡（问问爱尔兰，法国和荷兰政客就知道了）。
But a vote on transferring new powers would be suicide: just ask Irish, French or Dutch politicians.
看来作为美国最大的经济体的加州正在尽最大努力自取灭亡，而这也打碎了美国对经济复苏给予的希望。
California thus seems to be doing its level best to come to ruin and, as the nation's largest economy, to drag the country's hopes for a recovery down with it.
八月他在斯摩棱斯克一心只想如何推进，可是我们现在却看出，这种继续推进对他来说显然是自取灭亡的。
In August he was in Smolensk and thinking of nothing but advancing further, though, as we see now, that advance meant inevitable ruin.
特别是后者将导致一个两难的境地：人类如果过度掠夺自然资源将会自取灭亡，但是如果不那样做又会面临悲惨的命运。
The latter, in particular, presents a catch twenty-two: man will sow his destruction if he exploits natural resources, but he risks perishing if he does not do so.
吉姆·柯林斯：作为一个简单的背景介绍，我要说明一下自己对这个问题的兴趣，也就是企业是如何自取灭亡，走向衰落的。
Jim Collins: Just as a brief background, I got really fascinated with the question, of how enterprises bring about their own demise or how they fall.
图6：在一次最终的恒星风中，在蝴蝶星云的中心部位，一颗行将灭亡的恒星将热气吹到了几万亿英里之外星云的翅膀边缘处。
6：In a final gust of wind, the dyingstar at the center of the Butterfly Nebula sweeps hot gas into lacy wingstrillions of miles across.
每个人都说这是自取灭亡，但大大出乎意料的是，《分手大师》首周末报收1.5亿元，对此类影片来说，这个表现算是相当不错了。
Everyone said this would be suicidal, but surprise, surprise, it returned 150 million yuan during its first weekend, a very respectable performance for this genre.
在展示不诚信的企业界大亨如何会自取灭亡，或揭示棘手的难题(比如说，是否该解雇忠诚但无效率的员工)怎样能巧妙解决时，个案研究显然很有用。
Case studies are clearly useful in showing how dishonest tycoons can come undone, or revealing how tricky dilemmas - whether, say, to fire loyal but inefficient employees - can be finessed.
在展示不诚信的企业界大亨如何会自取灭亡，或揭示棘手的难题(比如说，是否该解雇忠诚但无效率的员工)怎样能巧妙解决时，个案研究显然很有用。
Case studies are clearly useful in showing how dishonest tycoons can come undone, or revealing how tricky dilemmas - whether, say, to fire loyal but inefficient employees - can be finessed.
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