Measurements taken in 1911 estimated that the tower would collapse by 2050, if not sooner.

据1911年的测量估计，该塔最迟将在2050年倒塌，如果不是更早的话。

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Unified markets are what a world driven to collapse by hyperconsumption is desperately going to need.

这个世界几乎被过度消费拖向崩溃边缘，现在最急需的正是统一整合的市场。

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Engineering firms, which saw orders collapse by almost a quarter during the recession, cut employment by about 8%.

虽然订单在衰退期间减少了四分之一，工程类公司只大约裁员8%。

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But Nye says the choices made by Mikhail Gorbachev following his 1985 appointment as general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party hastened the collapse.

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It's Huxley that said woe to the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact, nuclear collapse.

赫胥黎说过,一个美丽的理论,被丑陋的事实所抹杀，核坍塌，真是科学的悲剧。

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Now it's different in important ways because it's really focused at preventing the collapse of the economy that is created by a financial system failure.

现在，这个不同有很重要的意义,因为它真正专注于,阻止被金融系统的失败而引发的,经济的崩溃。

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Fiat saw sales fall 4%, but its Alfa Romeo brand saw sales collapse by a third.

BBC: European car sales in first rise for 18 months

In 1910 ABS was saved from financial collapse by the timely deaths of supporters whose wills contained hefty bequests.

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"The banking system is in difficulty, but it's not in danger of collapse by any means, " says credit analyst Stracke.

NPR: Lenders Consider Freezing Rates on Subprime Loans