The sovereign holds total power over all the institutions of civilian and ecclesiastical life, holding sway over a kind of peaceable kingdom.

君主拥有绝对的权力,它高于所有的平民机构或是教会机构，支配着和平的国家。

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Even in peacetime, military expenditures take up almost half of the budget of any European state, and in times of war, eighty percent.

即使在和平时期,欧洲任一国家的军费开支,也几乎占据了其预算的一半,在战时,更是达到了80%

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