来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：古希腊历史简介 第1集 第1集》

• 
  
  Well, the people who the Romans called barbarians
  那么 被罗马人称作野蛮人的民族
• 
  
  destroyed the Western empire and it also the destroyed
  摧毁了西方帝国的同时也摧毁了
• 
  
  the power of the emperors and their efforts
  君主权力
• 
  
  to impose religious and
  以及通过王权实施
• 
  
  political conformity under imperial control.
  政教合一的种种努力
• 
  
  The emperor in the east was able to do that
  东方帝王之所以能够如愿以偿
• 
  
  because they were not conquered by the barbarians,
  是因为他们没有受到野蛮人的入侵
• 
  
  but in the West,
  但是在西方
• 
  
  you have this situation where
  你面临的情形是
• 
  
  nobody is fully in charge.
  没有人负有完全的责任
• 
  
  Here we have arrived at a second sharp break
  于是就产生了第二次
• 
  
  with the general experience of mankind.
  人类一般经验的大变革