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 after the periodic table was developed in the late 1800's, people didn't understand this quite as well, they took things a little more literally.

在十九世纪后期元素周期表经过发展之后，人们还没有很好地意识到这一点，他们的认识还有些粗浅。

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