Austen admired it; Edward Gibbon collected it; Empress Catherine II of Russia ordered a job lot of it.

奥斯汀赞美它；爱德华·吉本收藏它；俄国女皇凯瑟琳二世也订购了许多。

The English 18th century historian Edward Gibbon is particularly helpful with this task of bringing us to a less frightened perspective on what we face.

英国 18 世纪历史学家爱德华·吉本在这项任务中特别有帮助，他让我们对我们面临的问题能够持有一个不再那么害怕的心态。

Edward Gibbon started work on the series of volumes around 1770 and completed the final book on a summer's evening in 1787 while he was on holiday in Switzerland.

爱德华·吉本在 1770 年左右开始了这一系列的工作，并在 1787 年夏天的一个晚上完成了最后一本书，当时他正在瑞士度假。

Far more weighty was Edward Gibbon, who was in time to win fame as the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

更有分量的是爱德华·吉本 (Edward Gibbon)，他及时赢得了罗马帝国衰亡历史学家的名声。

The influential historian Edward Gibbon, a favorite of our nation's founders, believed that the Western Empire fell in 476 AD with the departure of Romulus Augustus and the accession of King Odovacar of Italy.

颇具影响力的历史学家我国最受欢迎的缔造者爱德华·吉本，认为西罗马是在476年奥古斯都路斯退位，意大利国王奥多亚克登基后灭亡的 。

For example, I have a copy of one of the great books in the English language, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.

例如，我有一本英文名著， 爱德华·吉本 (Edward Gibbon) 的《罗马帝国衰亡史》(The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)。

John Rapley, a political economist, and Peter Heather, a historian, dissent from the analysis familiar since Edward Gibbon of an empire in gradual decline almost from its inception under Augustus.

政治经济学家约翰·拉普利 (John Rapley) 和历史学家彼得·希瑟 (Peter Heather) 对自爱德华·吉本 (Edward Gibbon) 以来熟悉的分析持异议，该分析认为一个帝国几乎从奥古斯都统治时期开始就逐渐衰落。

Thomas More, Isaac Newton, William Harvey and many other English scholars all wrote their works in Latin and, even in the 18th Century, Edward Gibbon wrote his major works in French, and only then translated them into English.

托马斯·莫尔 (Thomas More)、艾萨克·牛顿 (Isaac Newton)、威廉·哈维 (William Harvey) 和许多其他英国学者都用拉丁文撰写他们的著作，甚至在 18 世纪，爱德华·吉本 (Edward Gibbon) 的主要著作都是用法语撰写的，然后才将它们翻译成英语。