They're going to be famous, but unless something happens, they're going to self-destruct.

他们将会出名，但如果照此下去，他们会走向毁灭。

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Madonna and Michael Jackson are famous, but who would claim that their fans find life more abundant?

麦当娜和迈克尔·杰克逊都很出名，但谁又能断定他们歌迷的生活会因为他们而觉得生活更加充盈呢？

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This book was famous once, but nobody reads it today.

这本书曾名噪一时，但现在却无人问津。

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Martin Luther King became its famous spokesman, but he did not live to see many of the results of his work.

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Now Buckle is a forgotten name today, but at one time he was just about as famous as Oswald Spengler who wrote The Decline of the West.

现在巴克尔已经被人们淡忘了，但他曾和写《西方的没落》的,奥斯瓦尔德，斯宾格勒一样著名。

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but you do get a lot of... there's some famous soul food restaurants up there.

你也会发现很多的……那里有些著名的黑人传统饭店。

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Lunch at the Original Point (motto: "Not Fancy But Famous"), a landmark near Perdido Key, Fla.

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Thursday one block south of Plaza Garibaldi, a rough but famous patch of Mexico City known for its mariachis.

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But famous examples of maladministration such as the troubled introduction of a new IT system for the National Health Service, chaos in the allocation of rural payments and tax credits, and ill-drafted private-finance initiatives seem to justify concern.

ECONOMIST: Reform of the civil service