Justice is nothing more or less right than what benefits the rulers, the rulers who determine the laws of justice.

正义没有对错,只要那对统治者有利，因是由他们决定正义的法律。

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So Judah, the Southern Kingdom, is a tribute-paying vassal state to the Assyrian overlord. And of course there's a great deal of Assyrian cultural influence and religious influence in Judah as a result.

那么犹大，南部王国，是纳贡者-向亚述统治者,上交贡赋理所应当的，他们受到了许多亚述,文化和宗教影响。

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One thing absolute monarchs don't want is they don't want impediments to their personal rule.

绝对统治者厌恶的一点,就是妨碍他们个人专制的绊脚石

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What they cared about-- because the Roman Republic by this time was basically a bunch of very important households, wealthy men and their households, and they were the members of the Senate, they were the knight class, they were the people who ran Rome.

他们在乎的是。。。因为当时的罗马共和国,实际上就是一群举足轻重的家户，富有男子及其家户所组成，他们是元老院成员，是骑士阶级，罗马的统治者。

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Rulers have been thought to be divine or appointed spokesmen for divinity.

人们或笃信统治者为神,或承认他们是神在人间的代理

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His father was a democrat in czarist Russia, and he was quite a reformer. At the time that the Bolsheviks took over in 1919, there was a brief window of time prior to the family's flight.

他的父亲在沙皇俄国是一个民主党人，他是一个改革家，当时布尔什维克党在1919年统治者俄国,他们家在那之后很快就离开俄国。

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They are, to put it another way perhaps, not only potential rulers and potential philosophers, they may also be potential revolutionaries, and the remainder of the book is addressed to them and of course people like them.

他们，换个角度来看，也许不只是潜在的统治者与潜在的哲学家，还是潜在的革命者，本书往下,都是讲他们,及像他们那样的人物。

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So, between 1650 and 1750, and this is right out of what you're reading, the rulers of continental Europe, of the biggest states extended their power.

所以从1650年到1750年这段时期,这正好与你们阅读的内容一致,欧陆上,统治者们扩张了他们的势力

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They established a dynasty of Semitic rulers.

他们建立了闪族统治者掌管的王朝。

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So, they would be alien bosses in a different territory.

他们成为了外来的统治者

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There really can't be a challenge to them from the state itself.

绝对统治者不会允许在国内,有任何对于他们权威的挑战

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So, for absolute rulers, the link to religion you can read about, but there's always the sense that he or she is doing God's will by exploiting ordinary peasants, ordinary people and conquering other territories.

所以对于绝对统治者,你会在书本上读到他们与宗教之间的联系,但是存在这样一种观点,即绝对统治者是代天授命,所以他们有理由剥削民众并且扩张领土

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