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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But that owed more to a collapse in imports, caused by a 25% fall in consumer spending, than to reviving exports.

但这更加归因于由减少25%的消费造成的进口崩溃，而不是出口的复苏。

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It's also good news if prices fall due to the collapse of a speculative bubble.

即使价格下降是由于投机泡沫的破灭造成的，也仍然是个好消息。

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