Underground, some experts say it might take 8-12 years before you are reduced to nothing but a skeleton.

地下，一些专家表示可能需要 在你减少到零之前8 - 12年但是一个骨架。

If that were true, then art would be reduced to nothing more or less than mere fashion.

如果那是真的， 那么艺术将沦为纯粹的时尚。

This continues until the apple is reduced to nothing— a process that would take one to two months in a temperate forest.

这种情况一直持续到苹果变得一无所有——在温带森林中，这一过程需要一到两个月的时间。