The material position of the Church had been declining since the late eighteenth century.

自18世纪晚期以来，教堂的世俗地位一直在下降。

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It wasn't until the eighteenth century that the secret began to unravel.

直到18世纪，这个秘密才开始被揭开。

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She was going to talk with slides about our town amid eighteenth century.

她要用幻灯片讲我们镇子十八世纪的事。

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By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today - a person who is new in a job.

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plastic The good prejudice is our prior awareness that plastic meant something different in the eighteenth century than it means now.

好偏见是我们预先知道,在十八世纪的意思与今天的不同。

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Another way into this problem: let's look at the comments that Dr. Johnson made about Milton's Lycidas in the eighteenth century.

看这个问题的另一个角度：让我们看看,约翰逊博士在18世纪队弥尔顿的《利西达斯》所做的评论。

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By the early eighteenth century, the Maroon communities controlled much of the eastern part of the island.

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Surprisingly, in the eighteenth century, horologists were already using air friction to regulate the speed of minute repeaters.

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Despite the wild fluctuations of Russian history since the early eighteenth century, not much has changed in this regard.

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