crumble to dust

基本解釋

Or will we crumble to dust, and, forgotten, become one with the desert?
或者，我們會(huì)化為烏有，而且，被人遺忘，變成沙漠的一部份。
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.
我們一直把它保存在嚴(yán)格控制氣候變化的展示臺(tái)里，幾乎不曾移動(dòng)過；
“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.”
我將浸潤你的全身，使得你——如果你愿意的話——獲得一種力量，叫你一夜就把全身銹掉，化成灰塵。

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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