他曾经是自己公司的总经理，因此要他去为别人工作他一定觉得很坍台。

He used to be managing director of his own company so it must be quite a come down for him to go and work for somebody else.

youdao

最好的时代，小说里白手起家的富人一贯浅薄可鄙，倘若穷困潦倒、破败坍台，也不配得到一丝同情。

AT THE best of times, the self-made rich are usually held up in fiction as shallow, contemptible and undeserving of sympathy even when their wealth leads to misery and ends in ruin.

youdao

最好的时代，小说里白手起家的富人一贯浅薄可鄙，倘若穷困潦倒、破败坍台，也不配得到一丝同情。

AT THE best of times, the self-made rich are usually held up in fiction as shallow, contemptible and undeserving of sympathy even when their wealth leads to misery and ends in ruin.

youdao