So, what happens with municipal privileges, towns that had municipal privileges, these are eroded and then virtually eliminated by powerful potentates.

地方特权怎么样了,拥有地方特权的城镇又发生了什么,绝对统治者削弱并最终废除了地方特权

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Since the poem's initial appearance, the institution of episcopacy, or church hierarchy, has been seriously eroded.

从这首诗初次面世以来，主教制度，或者说教会的等级制就已经被严重腐蚀了。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

The opportunity of people to control that is going down and down,and down; and the opportunity for parents to control it is being eroded day, after day, after day.

而人需要控制这种情况的机会,正在日益减少,而家长要控制自己孩子不受影响的概率,也日益降低

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Soil was being eroded and wasted along the Eastern seaboard, and they were using up the great soils of the Mississippi Valley and over time that slave system just somehow wasn't going to work out.

东部沿海地区的土地因被侵蚀而荒废掉,密西西比河谷地区的土地资源即将被耗尽,但就在这种情况下,奴隶制依然能维持南方的经济

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The hyper-skeptical point of view taken by scholars in Europe in the nineteenth century was eroded very sharply by the discovery of places that really convinced pretty much everybody that there was a Troy, and that there was a Mycenae.

以致十九世纪欧洲学者的,怀疑论观点遭到了无情的反击,因为历史遗迹的的发现,确实说明了特洛伊和迈锡尼,都曾存在过

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选