Is it working on a supersecret social site that'll blow away its competitors—or has it been left to wither?

他们正在做的一个绝密社交型网站，是可以一下打倒对手，还是成了无人问津的网站？

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If you want to get rid of a tree growing in your garden and cut it down, it will grow again quite fast, but if you stop irrigating the tree, it will gradually wither.

如果你想通过砍伐除去你花园中的一棵树，它会很快地重新生长起来，但如果你停止灌溉它，它却会逐渐枯萎。

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shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither?

鹰岂不拔出它的根来，芟除它的果子，使它枯乾，使它发的嫩叶都枯乾了吗。

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In the best regime if we were to inhabit such political philosophy would be unnecessary or redundant. It would wither away.

如果我们身处最优政体之中,压根不需要政治哲学,其亦显得累赘，而会逐渐消逝。

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Or if we don't appreciate it, wither and die.

或者，如果我们看不到这潜能，它就会像刚萌芽的幼苗一样被扼杀，it，will，depreciate—

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A350 to revive the larger older plane, or whether they should let it wither on the wing.

ECONOMIST: Airbus has a small problem in the market for big jets

Republican Congressional leaders should not suggest to the American people that they want to save Medicare when in their heart, they want to see it wither away.

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It is surely better to rethink the career structure of your employees than to see it wither (the proportion of professors at four-year universities who are on track to win tenure fell from 50% in 1997 to 39% ten years later).

ECONOMIST: Schumpeter