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.
当我们面对一个不可预测和令人忧虑的新年时，至少可以庆幸自己没有生活在1600年前，即将进入公元410年。这一年罗马被攻陷，罗马帝国放弃了对英国的统治。尽管这标志着“英国历史”的辉煌开端，但随着盎格鲁－撒克逊(Anglo-Saxon)野蛮人开始了对低地英国的无情征服，它也标志着一场衰退的开始，这场衰退足以令近期所有的危机都黯然失色。
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