Although church ritual had sustained an interest in timekeeping throughout the centuries of urban collapse that followed the fall of Rome, church time was nature's time.

尽管在罗马帝国灭亡后的城市崩溃的几个世纪里，教堂的仪式一直保持着人们对计时的兴趣，但教堂的时间是自然的时间。

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Jerry Pollitt's analogy to the fall of Rome seems so very appealing.

杰里·波利特对于罗马帝国的覆灭的类比似乎十分引人注目。

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After the fall of Rome, the first European society to regulate behaviour in private life in accordance with a complicated code of etiquette was twelfth-century Provence, in France.

罗马帝国灭亡后，在欧洲，第一个按照复杂的礼节规范私人生活行为的社会，是12世纪法国的普罗旺斯。

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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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It makes me think instead of the fall of Rome a disintegration of order in the face of unrelenting assault.

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It survived the fall of Rome remarkably well and continued with some small changes in vocabulary into the Middle Ages.

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The cardinals have taken into account the possibility that, without embracing the whole of humanity, Rome may once again decline and fall.

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