The DINK lifestyle can be a shallow one, adding nothing to the propagation of the race and family line, and contributing to the decline of Western civilization.

丁克式的生活肤浅，对于种族繁衍和家族延续毫无贡献，反而“促进”了西方文明的衰落。

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When a writer chooses the decline of a certain big family as the topic of his fiction, he is actually pondering over the tragedies and comedies of the society.

当作家选取某个大家族的没落作为他小说创作的题材的时候，他实际上是要演绎他对他那个社会的悲喜剧的思考。

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Caddy Compson in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury is always accused of being a promiscuous woman and drawing the Compson family into obsessive decline.

威廉·福克纳的小说《喧哗与骚动》中的女主角凯蒂·康普生历来被指责为道德败坏的女人，被认为是导致康普生家庭衰落的罪魁祸首。

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The BBC's Tom Burridge, in Madrid, says that the interview was a pitch to the Spanish people at a time when the popularity of the royal family is in decline.

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While the complexities of family life are described in absorbing detail the arrival of children, the decline of a parent it is Ms Tyler's ability to conjure a character in a few succinct phrases that draws the reader deep into the whirling resentment and misunderstanding that becomes Pauline's and Michael's marriage.

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