crumble to dust
基本解释
- 化为乌有；垮掉
英汉例句
- Or will we crumble to dust, and, forgotten, become one with the desert?
或者，我们会化为乌有，而且，被人遗忘，变成沙漠的一部份。 - We keep it in a climate-controlled case and we hardly ever move it, because with any sudden shock it could just crumble to dust.
我们一直把它保存在严格控制气候变化的展示台里，几乎不曾移动过； - “I shall penetrate you so thoroughly, ” he said, “that you will have the power of becoming rusty, and, if you wish it, to crumble into dust in one night.”
我将浸润你的全身，使得你——如果你愿意的话——获得一种力量，叫你一夜就把全身锈掉，化成灰尘。 - Indeed, the possibility that they might crumble to dust seems to be less of a concern than how nations will cope with the rise of so-called "megacities, " cities with populations of more than 10 million.
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