As we face an uncertain and worrying New Year, we can at least console ourselves with the fact that we are not living 1,600 years ago, and about to begin the year 410. In this year Rome was sacked, and the empire gave up trying to defend Britain. While this marks the glorious beginnings of “English history”, as Anglo-Saxon barbarians began their inexorable conquest of lowland Britain, it was also the start of a recession that puts all recent crises in the shade.
當我們面對一個不可預測和令人憂慮的新年時,至少可以慶幸自己沒有生活在1600年前,即將進入公元410年。這一年羅馬被攻陷,羅馬帝國放棄了對英國的統治。盡管這標志著“英國歷史”的輝煌開端,但隨著盎格魯-撒克遜(Anglo-Saxon)野蠻人開始了對低地英國的無情征服,它也標志著一場衰退的開始,這場衰退足以令近期所有的危機都黯然失色。
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