The Assyrian people survived the loss of their state, and they remained mostly inconspicuous for the next 600 years.

亚述人丧失了他们的城邦却生存了下来，他们毫不引人注意的残存了以后的600年。

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Assyrian art also associates the winged disc with divinity and divine protection of the king and people.

亚述人的艺术也与有翼的圆盘连结，象征着神和神保护国王和人民。

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You see, in the previous empires, like the Assyrian Empire, or these kinds of-- the Egyptian Empire, when people conquered other peoples, often all they wanted was tribute.

之前的各个帝国，比如亚述帝国，或者埃及帝国-,当他们战胜其他民族时，往往只是觊觎贡品。

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Some scholars refer to Deuteronomy as a kind of counter treaty, if you will, right? A subversive document that's trying to shift the people's loyalty from the Assyrian overlord to God, the true sovereign, and it's part of a national movement.

有些学者把申命记看做是一份对应的条约，如果你会这样的话，是吗？一份颠覆性的条约，试图将人们的忠诚,从亚述帝王那里引向上帝，真正的统治者，并且这是一次全国性行动的一部分。

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