Although church ritual had sustained an interest in timekeeping throughout the centuries of urban collapse that followed the fall of Rome, church time was nature's time.

尽管在罗马帝国灭亡后的城市崩溃的几个世纪里，教堂的仪式一直保持着人们对计时的兴趣，但教堂的时间是自然的时间。

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Although neither scenario is likely, I believe that Catastrophic Collapse represents the greater risk.

我相信毁灭性的破坏才是真正的威胁虽然在情景分析上也是不太可能的。

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Although no big market has escaped the financial crisis unscathed, the collapse in Russia was swifter, more savage and shows fewer signs of recovery than anywhere else.

虽然到现在还没有一个大市场逃过金融危机的劫难，但是俄罗斯的崩溃来的更快，更残酷，与其他任何地方比起来，没有复苏的迹象。

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Although some analysts may be tempted to interpret the collapse of the BAE-EADS merger as a sign of weakness, the exact opposite is true.

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Although its collapse potentially made architectural history, all of the thousands of tonnes of steel from the skyscraper were taken away to be melted down.

BBC: 9/11 third tower mystery 'solved'

Although America's economy no longer looks on the point of collapse, it has failed to return to healthy growth.

ECONOMIST: America's economy