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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We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome.

当时我们正站在一个教堂塔楼的顶上，是父亲把我从罗马的家里带到这个离家不远的意大利小镇楼顶上来的，我不明白他要做什么。

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A similar row may be looming in the Church of England, where a bunch of Anglo-Catholics are turning to Rome in protest against women becoming bishops.

一个类似的争论可能也正向英国教会逼来，一群英国天主教徒正在就反对妇女成为主教一事向罗马教庭求助。

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