I want to suggest to you that the fact that it's the religious book for him, for his culture, for his family, is not of course incidental to the fact that it's what reminds him of home.

我想提出一个事实,对于他自己，对于他的文化，对于他的家庭，这是一本有着宗教意味的书,所以这让他想起了家就绝非偶然了。

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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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