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The optimates, meaning "the best," tended to support the interests of the wealthy senators and the few wealthiest families.
贵族派，是指精英“,主张保护元老院议员的利益,以及少数富裕家庭。
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The Roman Senate, in the late part of the Republic-- yes--started dividing itself into two sort of parties; not official parties, but factions.
罗马元老院，共和国晚期。。。,分裂为两个派;,不是正规党派，只是小派系。
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T.S. Eliot, who was in many ways associated with the New Criticism, one of its intellectual forebears, nevertheless took a somewhat dim view of it and called it "lemon squeezer criticism."
提到新批评派不能不提T，S，爱略特，这是位元老级人物，他对这个新文学鉴赏方式持有一种比较特别的观点,他称之为，“挤柠檬式批评主义“
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In other words, in his propaganda, Augustus basically said, "I'm not a king, I'm just another senator, and I'm giving the Senate and the people all their power back."
换句话说，在奥古斯都的宣传中，他声称“我不是国王，我只是普通元老院议员，我将权力交还元老院及人民手中“
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Or Augustus--he had taken the title Augustus by this time, which means "the great"--he himself said, "I transferred the Republic from my power to the dominion of the Senate and the people of Rome."
或者奥古斯都。。。当时他已经使用了这个头衔，意思是“尊崇“，他说，“我已将共和国重还给,元老院及罗马人民统治“
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So Augustus actually reconstituted the Senate, and it was just that, a Senate reconstituted by the emperor.
奥古斯都早已重组元老院，由帝王重组的元老院。
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Actually he gained power in Rome mainly by military might, by kind of making the Senate nervous and winning a few battles, and that was against the law.
事实上他在罗马提升势力，是由于强大军事实力，而且赢了几场硬仗战争，让元老院感到不安，这是违反法律的。
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He was assassinated by conservative Senate forces-- - you know, Brutus and Cassius and others-- on the Ides of March, as you all know, March 15th, 44 BCE.
恺撒最终被元老院保守派暗杀-,布鲁图斯，卡西乌斯为首的等人-,在3月15日这天，也就是众所周知的，公元前44年3月15日。
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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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