The West is not on an inexorable slide towards irrelevance. Far from it.

西方并非不可逆转地走向无关紧要。远非如此。

At previous low points, the party's big problem was irrelevance.

之前支持率较低面临的大问题没有关系。

The main regional body, the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation, is an irrelevance.

地区主要的区域性组织--南亚区域合作联盟（SAARC，简称南盟）也形同虚设。

But now in large parts of the developed world, it's become a side show or even an irrelevance.

但现在在发达世界的很大部分，它已成了一插曲或者一无关紧要。

" Day two is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day 1."

亚马逊拥有近35万名员工。 如此庞大的企业，其运作效率似乎应会更低，就像许多成熟企业运作得那样。 但是，从一，佐斯就宣称，亚马逊会像饥渴的初创企业一样运作，把每一天都看做是创业的第一天。 佐斯在2016年度致股东信中解释了这种运作方式的重要性： " 第二天是停滞期。 接着就是变得无关紧要， 然后是一蹶不振的痛苦阶段， 最后是灭亡。 这就是为什么要一直处在第一天的原因" 。

He and his followers have since been reduced to virtual irrelevance, a point the television magnate made forcefully to Mr Alfano in the gruelling negotiations that failed to prevent the latest split.

他和他的跟随者从此沦落为无关紧要的人物，这是在那次激烈的谈判上电视巨头向阿尔法诺强调指出的，尽管这次谈判未能阻止的了最近的这场政分裂。