The Confederate currency, inflated to the bursting point, had utterly collapsed and was as worthless as waste paper.

膨胀到爆点的邦联货币已经彻底崩溃，像废纸一样一文不值。

Explanations include a gamma ray burst pointing away from the Earth, or a black hole destroying a white dwarf star.

解释包括远离地球的伽马射线爆发，或黑洞摧毁白矮星。

Lydia can't sleep and suffers from delusions, and Kim tried to push everything away for so long that at one point her body quite literally bursts.

莉迪亚睡不着觉，患有妄想症，而金长期以来一直试图推开一切，以至于她的身体一度几乎濒临崩溃。