What the Dutch did--the Netherlands is an extraordinarily small country, and it's the most populated country in Europe, then, per square kilometre, and is now--once.

那些荷兰人...荷兰是一个,非常非常小的国家,也是当时欧洲人口密度最高的国家,如果以每平方公里人口计算,现在也是

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The English Civil War, the Thirty Years' War, in which in parts of central Europe a quarter of the population disappeared, were killed, murdered in ways that I will unfortunately show you in a while.

欧洲近四分之一人口,死于三十年战争和英国内战,稍后我会展示给你们看,我对此也很难过

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选