The collapse of their isolated civilization, Diamond writes, is a "worst-case scenario for what may lie ahead of us in our own future".
戴蒙德写道，他们的孤立文明的崩溃，是“我们未来可能面临的最糟糕的情况”。
Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization.
现在，第三个也是更重要的动机出现了：为了防止我们文明的崩溃，这些目标可能是必须要实现的。
But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country.
但是如果他这样做，他也许就会加速自己国家的灭亡。
The collapse was disastrous, requiring the emergency medical team and good teamwork.
摔倒造成了严重的后果，需要医疗急救和良好的团队合作来进行救治。
The disease pushed him to work harder but also led to the collapse of his two marriages.
这场疾病促使他更加努力工作，但也导致他两次婚姻失败。
The collapse also ruined a bath house and mosaics that had been in the cliff for many hundreds of years.
这次坍塌还摧毁了一座澡堂和在悬崖上存在了数百年的马赛克。
An expectable aberration in the climatic regime may have been enough to cause the collapse of the village.
气候系统中一个可预期的异常可能足以导致这个村庄的崩溃。
The second was the earthquake that hit China's Sichuan Province in 2008, causing the collapse of poorly constructed buildings.
第二次是2008年发生在中国四川省的地震，那次地震导致一些劣质建筑倒塌。
Correspondents in the city say the raids, one of them in daylight, caused the collapse of sections of the walls around the Bab al-Azizia military complex.
在该市的记者说，其中一次袭击发生在白天，导致阿齐齐亚军事基地周围的部分墙壁倒塌。
After the failure of Lehman Brothers, many of the world's largest banks feared the worst as the collapse of the housing bubble exposed investments in risky loans.
在雷曼兄弟破产后，许多全球最大的银行都曾担心出现最糟糕的情况，因为房地产泡沫的破裂暴露了它们在高风险贷款方面的投资。
If the wooden frame of the towers had caught fire, it could have sent the bells the largest of which, the Emmanuel Bell, weighs 13 tons crashing down, potentially causing the collapse of both towers.
如果双塔的木制框架起火，可能会导致最大的钟——重达13吨的伊曼纽尔钟倒塌，从而可能会导致双塔倒塌。
The collapse came when climate reached a tipping point.
当气候到达一个顶点的时候，气候突变就是出现。
Another issue emerged from the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
当雷曼兄弟破产之后另一个问题产生了。
The collapse of the credit bubble will reduce tax revenues.
信贷泡沫破灭将减少财政收入。
Exports have been tumbling along with the collapse in world trade.
国际贸易崩溃连累了出口。
But they did not predict the collapse of the US mortgage market.
但是他们没有预料到美国次贷级市场的崩溃。
What has made the pirates' audacity possible is the collapse of Somalia.
海盗们肆无忌惮是因为索马里的崩溃。
The collapse in the Hirst market can partly be ascribed to the recession.
赫斯特作品在市场上大幅度跳水，部分原因可以归结到经济衰退头上。
It's also good news if prices fall due to the collapse of a speculative bubble.
即使价格下降是由于投机泡沫的破灭造成的，也仍然是个好消息。
The collapse of the Soviet Union has sort of liberated Russia from its history.
苏联的解体把俄罗斯从自己的历史中解放出来。
But would a structural engineer reason away the collapse of a building in a similar way?
但是建筑工程师会用类似的方式来解释一个建筑物倒塌的原因吗？
The collapse of the pound has left many couples' plans for the good life in tatters.
英镑的崩溃已使许多夫妇对于美好生活的计划破碎了。
Predictions of the collapse of the tropical rain forests have been around for years.
有关热带雨林毁灭的预测已经有好多年了。
The collapse of America's carmakers, meanwhile, has helped push unemployment close to 30%.
同时，美国汽车制造商的崩溃，导致失业率逼近30%。
Yet that era, which began with the collapse of the Soviet Union, ended suddenly last year.
然而，那个始于苏联崩溃后的时代，去年突然结束了。
In fact, the collapse of cooking in a society tracks very closely its rise in obesity.
实际上，一个社会烹饪的缩水与肥胖症的上升密切相关。
STEVE HILTON remembers months of despair after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.
SteveHilton仍旧记得2008年雷曼兄弟破产之后长达几个月的绝望感。
To some folks, the collapse of real estate market could make their house dreams come true.
在部分民众的心目中，房地产市场崩盘可能会圆了他们的房子梦。
"We witnessed the collapse of the financial system," Soros said at a Columbia University dinner.
“我们亲眼见到金融体系的崩溃，”索罗斯在哥伦比亚大学的晚宴上说。
Astronomers will tell you that they are born in the collapse of primordial clouds of gas and dust.
天文学家们会告诉你，它们诞生于原始的由气体和尘埃组成的云团的崩溃。
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