"Ireland's traditional vote bearers of family law, neutrality,and taxation the Irish received legal guarantees that nothing would affect their prerogatives in those areas,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

That is to lose their prerogatives, their rights to an absolute state.

那就是失去他们的特权,在一个绝对统治里所拥有的权力

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They want prerogatives.

他们想要特权

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