他的家族在英格兰内战中没落，现在轮到他们来品尝这苦果。
His family had been on the losing side during the English civil war and it had cost them.
之前十年中，IBM似乎逐渐走向没落，根据美国证券交易委员会的一份文件表明，IBM在PC业务上三年半之内亏损了近10亿美元。
In the preceding decade, IBM appeared to be headed into extinction. From one SEC filing, it revealed that it lost nearly a billion dollars on the PC business over three-and-one-half years.
史氏的人生轨迹，显示出传统儒学在社会变革中的无力与没落，预示出饱受儒学羁绊的传统知识分子的悲剧人生。
His living orbit demonstrated the weakness and wane of Confucianism in social transformation, and indicated tragedy life of traditional intellectuals suffered enough from Confucianism.
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