This defeat led to the disintegration of the empire.

这次战败道致了帝国瓦解。

The mighty empire finally crumbled.

这个帝国最终瓦解了。

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

苏联既已瓦解，冷战成为过去，如今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.

惊人展并在于言真实性被公开质疑，而在于这种被宽容共识现在已经瓦解：言背后真相被质疑，而撒名义被质疑。