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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The Roman Empire began to decline in the 3rd century, increasingly troubled by the inroads of northern tribes such as the Goths.

公元3世纪，罗马帝国由于受到来自北方的部落民族如哥特任的侵扰而开始衰退。

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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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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

In the power vacuum that accompanied the decline of the Holy Roman Empire, a number of large and efficient city-states evolved, all having an unusually potent sense of a separate identity.

NEWYORKER: Booted