Sometimes they challenge and contradict one another, but they are not best seen as linear, as telling a neat, linear story about Israelite religion flowering and fading.

有时候它们相互对质或矛盾，但它们从未被当作线性结构，整洁有序的故事,关于以色列宗教的兴盛与衰落。

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A sinking dollar means a poorer nation and a superpower with a sinking currency is a contradiction in terms."

美元疲软意味着国家的衰落,而美国本身又是个超级大国,两者未免自相矛盾“

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The Netherlands ceases to be a great power, whereas Britain in 1707 becomes the biggest of the world powers.

随着荷兰的衰落,一七零七年,英国成为了世界的霸主

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And of course, there are more theories about the fall of the Roman Empire than there are about the fall of the Mycenaean world.

当然,罗马帝国衰落的理论比,迈锡尼衰落的理论更多

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The idea of the immigration model is that Hebrew settlement would have probably occurred at about the same time in the latter part of the thirteenth century The Hebrews could take advantage of all of these upheavals and the weakened hold of Egypt.

移民模型的观点是,希伯来人的定居可能发生了,大约也在十三世纪后半叶,希伯来人会利用所有这些激变,以及埃及的衰落。

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He grew up in the waning years, the last years, of the Elizabethan era, and he was a boy when Shakespeare's most famous plays were first performed.

他成长在，伊丽莎白时代的衰落期，最后几年，当莎士比亚著名的戏剧第一次被搬上舞台时,他还是个男孩。

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That appears for the first time after the fall of the Mycenaeans.

它第一次出现于在迈锡尼文明衰落之后

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In the city-states of Venice, which was a major trading city already on the decline, and in Florence, and in Milan, and in Turin, and in places like that you find something very comparable, but Italy is not united until the 1860s.

在威尼斯城邦,这个曾以贸易为主的城市已经走向衰落,而佛罗伦萨,米兰,都灵,类似的这些城市情况都是如此,除了十九世纪六十年代才统一的意大利

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