Neglect, dilapidation, storm and fire have gradually reduced it to a rusting hulk, like the rib-cage of a whale.

失修、荒废、风暴和火灾使它逐渐沦为生锈的废船，就像鲸鱼的胸腔。

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As Martin gradually revealed more about his life and his letters started arriving written on pieces of trash, Caitlin realized what the living conditions were like for Martin.

随着马丁逐渐透露更多关于他生活的事情，以及他寄来的在废纸上写完的信件，凯特琳意识到马丁的生活条件是什么样子的。

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The local neighbourhood, like so many areas of Manhattan, is gradually being gentrified.

同曼哈顿的许多地区一样，当地街区正逐渐贵族化。

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They used to pay out typically like 80% of their earnings but it's been gradually going downward and now it's down to like 40%.

过去他们将收益的80%作为股利,但现在正慢慢减少,目前降到了40%

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That's exactly how a death tax that was originally sold in 1916 as hitting only billionaires like the Rockefellers gradually began to apply to middle-class families who own, say, a successful auto-repair shop or invested wisely during the stock market booms of the 1980s and 1990s.

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So, in future, without Microsoft and Apple (and Amazon, another innovative company that has never wasted its time in Las Vegas), it's hard to avoid concluding that CES will -- like Best Buy - gradually but inevitably go out of business.

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Like many writers, he gradually discovered he didn't really have a knack for much else.

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