With the demise of Rome, in the early Christian centuries, these philosophical academies, these philosophical schools, were absorbed into the medieval monasteries.

随着罗马帝国的灭亡，在基督世纪的初期，这些哲思学院，这些哲思学校，被中古世纪的修道院吸收。

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And so the very same moment will be the end of my body, the end of my existence,the end of my personhood.

这一刻就是我肉体的灭亡，我的存在的停止，我作为人的消亡。

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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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