八月他在斯摩棱斯克一心只想如何推进，可是我们现在却看出，这种继续推进对他来说显然是自取灭亡的。

In August he was in Smolensk and thinking of nothing but advancing further, though, as we see now, that advance meant inevitable ruin.

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图6：在一次最终的恒星风中，在蝴蝶星云的中心部位，一颗行将灭亡的恒星将热气吹到了几万亿英里之外星云的翅膀边缘处。

6：In a final gust of wind, the dyingstar at the center of the Butterfly Nebula sweeps hot gas into lacy wingstrillions of miles across.

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但是如果他这样做，他也许就会加速自己国家的灭亡。

But if he does this, he may hasten the collapse of his own country.

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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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