It is their job to make sure Paris doesn't collapse into the quarries that riddle its foundations.

他们的工作就是确保巴黎不会压塌它那千疮百孔的地基而沉入地下矿场。

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Many people were awakened by individual experience: the plight of a homeless neighbor, the collapse of a bank, a friend's job loss.

某些人的悲惨经历使得很多人警醒过来：邻居处于无家可归的困境，某家银行突然倒闭，一个朋友突然失业了。

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At this time last year, amidst headlines about banks on the verge of collapse and job losses of 700, 000 a month, we received another troubling piece of news about our economy.

WHITEHOUSE: Weekly Address: Reining in Budget Deficits

He lucidly and tenaciously chronicles how government and business reinforced de-facto segregation and did nothing to stop the collapse of the metropolitan job base, and shows that, once Pruitt-Igoe was up and running, there was little public money available to maintain it.

NEWYORKER: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

It's important to understand how striking this job-participation collapse is.

WSJ: Review & Outlook: Making Work Not Pay