He let his business slide until he was bankrupt.
他不努力经营事业,直至破产。
Like when Hollywood studios started selling videocassettes directly to the public at the same time it sold them to video rental companies. That's when Blockbuster's rental business started to slide.
就像当好莱坞制片厂开始直接向公众出售磁带又同时卖给磁带录像出租公司的时候,Blockbuster的磁带出租生意开始衰落。
(slide-"Nature obeys laws and, in Newton's words, 'it is the business of natural philosophy to find them out.' (Natural philosophy was, in his day, the term for science.)
(幻灯片出现:自然界遵循一定得规律,用牛顿的话说就是”自然哲学就是找出自然界规律的学科“(科学在牛顿那个年代称之为自然哲学)尽管人类不断努力去追寻这些规律的更精确形式,也许最终找到了他们的最终形式,但是这些规律不仅仅是人类的思维构想。
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