The traditional world was crumbling in all sorts of ways.

传统世界开始土崩瓦解。

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There's a portrait crumbling in a Hollywood attic right now

现在在好莱坞的阁楼上放着一个表面剥落的雕像。

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As the film begins, the Ministry of Magic is crumbling in the malefic grip of Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), and Harry has a price on his head.

在剧情的开始，魔法部在伏地魔(拉尔夫·费因斯)势力的渗透下危机四伏，而哈利的价值正是他的生命。

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Visions of soaring high-rises crumbling may grip the imagination but Surahman says it is the smaller one and two storey dwellings that are most vulnerable in places like Indonesia.

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This more limited mindset to entrepreneurism is slowly crumbling in the current economic environment.

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There on the wall they beheld an indigenous Latin American crucified beneath a domineering American eagle, a Mayan temple crumbling in the background.

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The second problem is that preventing crumbling in one place may accelerate it elsewhere, so that sea walls merely relocate erosion instead of preventing it.

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