bite the dust

基本解釋

Most of my family had to stop working because of illness that winter—I was not the only one to bite the dust.
那年冬天我們家大多數(shù)人都病倒了，只得停止工作——我并不是家里唯一病倒的人。
Watching one financial megalith after another bite the dust and one politician after another scream, "The depression is coming, the depression Is coming", terrified the private sector.
在一次經(jīng)濟(jì)受挫之后，又一塊經(jīng)濟(jì)巨石站了起來，一位政客大呼，“大蕭條來了，大蕭條來了”，使民營企業(yè)極度恐慌。
Fig1. Business cards are the driving licenses of the business world, without which you may bite the dust.
名片是你在商業(yè)世界里的駕駛執(zhí)照，在這里無照駕駛的后果更嚴(yán)重。
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