decline and fall

基本解释

We are studying the decline and fall of ancient Rome.
我们正在研究古罗马的衰亡。
THE decline and fall of Bear Stearns illustrates both an old truth and a new one.
贝尔斯登的下滑和倒下揭示了一个旧的和一个新的真理。
The decline and fall of the American car industry is relatively easy to summarise, and the Hummer is its reductio.
美国汽车业的衰亡相对比较容易概括总结，悍马正是美国汽车业的缩影。

Here are a couple of illustrations from his first novel, Decline and Fall (1928), just before his conversion to Catholicism.
FORBES: Picture This
Myers documents the decline and fall of biofuel plants throughout the northwest.
FORBES: Debunking The Phony Beliefs Of The Modern Green Movement
Although Mr Ottaway is reluctant to write the prince's political obituary, this is a story with clear elements of decline and fall.
ECONOMIST: Prince Bandar bin Sultan was an envoy like no other