1.So Ya yue lost its function as a political instrument, and its historical fate WAS to wither away as insipid "old music" .
西周雅乐的政治作用将与其无味的“古乐”一起萎缩、僵死，是不可避免的历史命运。
2.This social capital is fated to wither away - although not in the short run - if it is not renewed and reproduced.
这种社会资本是注定要消亡-虽然不是在短期内-如果它不更新和复制。
3.Your true love is the sunshine warming my life. My life will wither away in the coldness and darkness if I lose your love.
你的真爱却是照彻我生命的温暖阳光，失去它，我的生命将在黑暗凄冷中枯萎。
4.In the face of the crisis of modernity, Marx believed that the reality should be revolutionized and the state will wither away.
面对现代性危机，马克思认为应当使现实革命化，使国家走向消亡。
5.Can it all all wither away in a flash, can I negate the whole human deception, all the values and aspiration and standards, immediately?
这些能一下子都消失掉吗，我能立刻就否定掉整个人类的自欺，所有的价值观、渴望和标准吗？
6.Now that the Army is getting out of Iraq, it wants to make sure its urban combat skills don't wither away.
现在军队就要撤出伊拉克了，却不想让这经年累月磨练出来的城市战斗能力随之废掉。
7.Thanks to that, time encountered the same sad fate as many other nationalized entities: it began to wither away.
时间于是遭遇了和很多其他被国有化的东西一样的悲惨命运：它开始枯萎凋谢。
8.You should not write a paper analyzing all or even most of the ways ethnic and national identity have failed to wither away as predicted.
你不该书写一份报告分析全部或绝大部分族群与国家认同并非如预期中消亡的情况。
9.The doctor says after retirement, people have to find ways to occupy their time as they will wither away.
医生说退休后人们一定要找个方法来打发时间，否则他们会很快便凋萎而死去。
10.The first tender shoots of the economic recovery could quickly wither away if the companies can't get access to liquidity.
如果企业无法取得流动性，那麽经济复苏嫩芽可能会马上枯萎。