Even the most pessimistic assessments did not predict that government forces in Kabul would collapse while U.S. forces remained.

即使是最悲观的评估也没有预测到喀布尔的政府军会在美军仍驻扎的情况下崩溃。

It would have been finished years earlier had a storm not caused the dome to collapse, forcing the builders to demolish the entire basilica and start from scratch.

若非一场雷暴令圆顶倒塌迫使建筑工人拆除整座大教堂，并从头开始兴建教堂本应提早多年建成。