This strong external trend finally led to the decline and fall of the empire.

这一强大的外势终于决定了帝国的衰亡。

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When at last she died, he felt it, he said, “like the end of some reign or the fall of some empire”.

最后她去世时他觉得：“像是某种统治结束了，一个帝国倒塌了”。

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becomes the question not to be asked about companies, but to be asked about New York culture, American culture, the decline of the American Empire, and so the fall of the West.

这个问题是对纽约文化、美国文化、美国的落寞以及整个西方世界堕落的迎头棒喝。

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And of course, there are more theories about the fall of the Roman Empire than there are about the fall of the Mycenaean world.

当然,罗马帝国衰落的理论比,迈锡尼衰落的理论更多

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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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Like unread copies of The Wealth of Nations or The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, they are tossed into the trash bin.

FORBES: Historical Amnesia And Single-Entry Accounting

The history prize went to Frederik Logevall for "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " about Vietnam under the French.

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History: "Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam, " by Fredrik Logevall (Random House), a balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war.

WSJ: 2013 Pulitzer winners in journalism and arts