However, if something bites the dust, it has failed.

然而，如果我们说“bite the dust”，就说明事情失败了。

I think it's time to throw it out. Another cell phone bites the dust.

我想是时候扔掉了。又一台手机彻底坏掉了。

But using the term bites the dust, about a real person's death is rude, or not nice.

但是用bites the dust这个短语形容一个人的死亡，这是粗鲁、不礼貌的。

To bite the dust can mean suffering defeat.

所以，bite the dust可以指遭受失败。

In the past ten years, many technologies have bitten the dust.

在过去的十年里，许多技术都过时了。

But used this way, bite the dust is very informal and not respectful.

但以这种方式使用，这个表达很不正式，也不礼貌。

I had to replace mine last month. My phone was just a year old when it bit the dust.

我的上个月也换了。才用了一年，我的手机就彻底坏掉了。

And as for you, Bernard, if your Minister bites the dust, your reputation as a high flyer -such as it is, will be hit for six.

至于你，伯纳，你的大臣落了地，你现在的好名声也全打水漂。

Plagiarism, lying, waffle-mongering: hardly a week goes by without some academic celebrity or other biting the dust, his reputation in tatters.

没有几个物种会像名家那样树敌众多，学者嫉妒他们的名利双收，记者反感他们的盛气凌人，人人痛恨他们的志在必得，从学术地位的把持到媒体上的频频曝光，一个都不放过。所以对于我们外人来说倒是有热闹可看了，剽窃，说谎，招摇撞骗，几乎每周都能看到这个或那个专家名流身败名裂，一败涂地。

Italy’s championship hopes eventually bit the dust.

【bite】意大利队夺冠的希望最后化为了泡影。

So euphemistically, someone might breathe their last, but dysphemistically, that old geezer down the road finally bit the dust.

委婉地说，有人可能会呼吸最后一口气，但委婉地说， 路上的那个老家伙终于咬住了灰尘。

French President Emmanuel Macron is talking energy with Joe Biden, and another cryptocurrency company bit the dust this week.

法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙正在与乔·拜登讨论能源问题，而另一家加密货币公司本周陷入困境。

Personally, my money is on Tony Stark or Captain America biting the dust, because it's gotta be a character that the audience will be upset about. But who's it gonna be?

个人来说，我觉得托尼·史塔克或者美国队长很有可能会牺牲，因为牺牲的很有可能是一位会让观众很伤心的角色，那么，究竟会是谁呢？