So, here is where Jerry Pollitt's analogy to the fall of Rome seems so very appealing.

对此,杰瑞·波利特对于罗马城陷落,的类比似乎也十分引人注目

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The creation almost of a clean slate, even more so I would argue than the disruption that it came after the fall of Rome, because there's one big difference.

这几乎就是从一张白纸重新创作,甚至比起,我认为,比起紧随罗马陷落而出现的分裂更有价值,因为这两者有一个巨大的差别

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The fall of Rome did not destroy one of the most important tenacious and significant aspects of the old culture, the Roman Catholic Church, which remained and became the central fact for the new culture.

罗马的灭亡并没有对旧文化中最重要,最强韧最意味深远的罗马天主教会产生破坏,它保留了下了并成为了新文化的核心要素

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