Thee fall of the Roman empire and the coming of the dark ages were troubling times.

罗马帝国的衰落和黑暗时代的到来也是多事之秋。

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The fall of the Roman empire and the coming of the dark ages were troubling times.

罗马帝国的衰落和黑暗时代的到来也是多事之秋。

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The Jingshi group did not know about the essence of whole social problems and could not save the Ming Empire, but their thought still put an important effect on the people at that time and late ages.

晚明经世群体对于明王朝的衰败缺乏本质上的认识，缺乏对整个社会的宏观考察，其经世思想，并没能挽救明王朝覆灭的命运，但是仍产生了深远的影响。

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Another characteristic of these years, which scholars refer to as the Dark Ages, just as they do the years after the fall of the Roman Empire-- dark for two reasons. Dark, in the most obvious way, because we don't have any writing, no record of them.

这也是这段时期的另一个特征,学者们称之为,黑暗时代,他们也是这么称呼,罗马帝国陷落后的那段时期的,称黑暗主要有两个原因,黑暗,最明显的理由,是因为我们没有任何关于他们的史料和记录

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Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire (p. 22).

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