I am reading a book about the rise and fall of the Roman Empire.

我正在看一本关于罗马帝国兴衰的书。

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In Lausanne, they paid theirrespects at the house of Edward Gibbon, where he penned his revered epichistory, “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”

在洛桑市，他们带着崇敬的心情去了爱德华吉本的家，在那里爱德华写下了“罗马兴衰史”。

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Before Thomas Edison was ten, he had already read History of England, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, History of the World, and the Age of Reason.

托马斯·爱迪生在十岁之前就已经读完了《英格兰历史》《罗马帝国的兴衰》《世界历史》和《理性时代》等书籍。

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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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