The source text is a part of the book “Empire: What Ruling the World Did to the British” written by Jeremy Paxman. The first obstacle I encountered was the very first sentence of the paragraph, which was incredibly hard for me to translate. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out whether to say po II WŚ or od czasów II WŚ and then some more wondering if there is even a difference in meaning in these two phrases. Having almost gone mad, I gave up and used po for a reason I cannot even remember now but I am sure the reasoning must have sounded good in my head. However, as I soon found out, the hardship of grasping “since” was nothing compared to translating the next part of the sentence.
I was not certain how the phrase irresistible decline
I was not certain how the phrase irresistible decline