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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The books are available at the Yale Bookstore, Barnes & Noble--here you guys, here's some of these--and the textbook is a good textbook, it's really good in cultural history.

那些书在耶鲁书店都有,巴尔内斯&诺贝尔-给你们,这是书目-教材是个不错的教材,在历史文化方面真的不错

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