纷纷倒闭 meaning in English

close down one after another
go bankrupt one after another

If the newspaper industry was not in trouble, why had so many newspapers succumbed ?
那么，既然报纸行业并未陷入困境，却又为什么有如此众多的大报纷纷倒闭呢？
Small companies went out of business one by one, and the number of the unemployed continued to rise ever higher and higher .
小公司纷纷倒闭，失业人数仍在不断增加。
Many businesses have closed down because of the recession
因经济衰退许多企业纷纷倒闭
In later decades , mills were shuttered as a result of job - displacing technology and federal limits on logging in national forests
其后的数十年，随着科技革新以及联邦限制对国家森林的砍伐，锯木厂纷纷倒闭。
But since the end of last century , many large companies of our country met a stagnant situation and have come to be bankrupted
但自从上世纪末开始，我国的许多企业出现了停滞不前的局面，甚至许多的大企业纷纷倒闭、破产。