"History tells us that great powers, when they have gotten into very significant fiscal problems, have ceased to be great powers."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07

What does it mean, a new form comes about only to replace an old form which has ceased to be aesthetically viable?

但是新的形式代替旧的形式,来换取审美的重生是什么意思？

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Or I've imagined a story in which my body has perhaps ceased to exist, or I've imagined a story in which I exist, or at least my mind exists.

或者说,我想象着,我的躯体消亡了,也可以说,我存在,或至少我的心灵还存在

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

But, it ceased being funny, and it was nothing like the siege of Leningrad where something like a million people died in World War Two of starvation; but, there were all sorts of little caskets being dragged along to what passed then for mortuaries.

但是,这不再那么有趣了,而这和列宁格勒之围比就相形见绌了,二战时期的大概有一百万人,被活活饿死,但是,巴黎有各种棺材,被拖到太平间去

耶鲁公开课 - 1871年后的法国课程节选

He eventually switched; his New York this happened in many regiments in the Civil War it took so many casualties it ceased to exist and he switched to a Connecticut regiment and he served that Connecticut regiment through the summer of 1864.

他最终换了军队,内战期这很平常,他所在的纽约军队伤亡惨重,全军覆灭,他来到康乃狄格军队,他一直在此服役,度过了1865年夏

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选