One after the other Danton, Robespierre and the rest went to the guillotine.

丹东，罗伯斯庇尔和其他人一个接一个地上了断头台。

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In fact, Burke published his work in 1790, before the cobbled streets of Paris echoed with the rumble of tumbrels and the roar of crowds at the guillotine.

事实上，当隆隆作响的囚车还未辗过鹅卵石铺就的巴黎的大街小巷，断头台处人群的呼吼还未在巴黎的上空回荡之时，柏克的著作就已于一七九零年问世。

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You're in line for the guillotine… it stops working properly… and you offer to fix it.

每次你到碎纸机前发现它不能正常工作时，你会毫不犹豫地修好它。

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Once the money is printed, guillotine cutters separate the sheets into two notes, then into individual notes.

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And so as the other man is being carted off to the guillotine to be killed, our hero takes his place.

所以当另一个人被装在车里押到断头台行刑时，我们的主角就代替了他。

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Just like somebody could take my place in the string quartet, it seems that somebody could take my place at the guillotine.

就像别人代替我在弦乐四重奏团演出一样，看上去有人可以代替我上断头台。

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Tocqueville's father, jailed with them, escaped only because the guillotine caught up with Robespierre first.

ECONOMIST: Liberty and democracy

These are 1793, the year of the guillotine, and 1944, the year of the liberation.

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He spoke against the hanging judges of Manila who called themselves the Guillotine Club.

ECONOMIST: Antonio Fortich