Now Buckle is a forgotten name today, but at one time he was just about as famous as Oswald Spengler who wrote The Decline of the West.

现在巴克尔已经被人们淡忘了，但他曾和写《西方的没落》的,奥斯瓦尔德，斯宾格勒一样著名。

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So two possible negative effects--the taste is just a tease, the how the noble have fallen--on the one hand.

所以两种可能的负面影响，品尝只是一种戏弄，贵族如何没落，在一方面讲。

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There are a lot of perspectives discernible or extractable from this treatise, Areopagitica, from which the fallen state seems in so many ways, maybe in every way, superior to its unfallen counterpart.

有很多角度都可以从这个专著《论出版自由》中辨别和提取,出来，从很多方面或是一方面来说，从没落的政府比其他未没落的对手优越中来。

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How the mighty have fallen.

有势力的人是如何没落的。

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