瓦解

This defeat led to the disintegration of the empire.

次战败道致了帝国的。

The mighty empire finally crumbled.

个强大的帝国最终了。

What's a screenwriter to do now that the Soviet Union's gone and the Cold War is a microwaved warmish mush?

苏联既已，战成为过去，如今的编剧们又该怎样写呢？

The striking development is not that the veracity of some is open to doubt, but that this forgivingly collusive arrangement has now broken down: not the fact of lying, but the naming of it.

惊人的展并不在于谎言的真实性公开的质疑，而在于宽容的共识现在已经：不是谎言背后的真相质疑，而是撒谎的名义质疑。