Now Buckle is a forgotten name today, but at one time he was just about as famous as Oswald Spengler who wrote The Decline of the West.

现在巴克尔已经被人们淡忘了，但他曾和写《西方的没落》的,奥斯瓦尔德，斯宾格勒一样著名。

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In other words, Buckle was the avatar of the notion in the late nineteenth century that everything was going to hell in a handbasket.

换言之，十九世纪后期有一种观念认为所有事物都在迅速恶化,而巴尔克则是这种观念的化身。

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And the end of the passage is, "Have you read Buckle?"

文章的结尾写道：“你读过巴克尔的书吗？“

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Have you read Buckle?

你读过巴克尔的书吗？

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