The material position of the Church had been declining since the lateeighteenthcentury.
自18世纪晚期以来,教堂的世俗地位一直在下降。
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Malainey et al. find a possible explanation in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century accounts from three frontiersmen who had adapted to lean-meat diets during extended periods in the plains.