Statues cracking and toppling over. The Nile drying up. Single-handedly, you will manage to bring the greatest kingdom on earth to ruin.

石像崩裂倒塌，尼罗河干枯。你一个人把世界上最伟大的王朝搞垮。

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It is not of our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

他们不但借助我们的恶来惩罚我们，也利用我们内心的美好、善良、慈悲、关爱，来毁灭我们。

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Events seemed to be conspiring to bring about his ruin.

许多事好象协同促成了他的失败。

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We should be thankful that, whatever the reasons, there are a few people with the courage to risk ridicule, at a minimum, and possibly ruin, to bring new and often better ideas to the masses.

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At least until the wrong parents bring the ugliest of real world forces into play to ruin it.

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