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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Some hopeful politicians in Rome talk of the collapse of a new government leading to a reassembling of a middle-of-the-road coalition that took in more centrist elements from both sides a sort of rebirth of 1980s-style Christian Democracy.

ECONOMIST: Italy's election