But they identified large standing armies with France with France or with the Spain of Phillip II or with Prussia or with Russia.

然而他们往往把拥有大量陆军武装,与法国或者菲利普二世的西班牙,或者普鲁士,俄国等国家相联系

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There is this real fear that large standing armies could ultimately compromise the rights of freeborn Englishmen.

他们所真正担心的是大量常备军,可能最终会危及到"生而自由"的英国人的权利

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What have they identified large standing armies with?

人们把庞大的常备军和什么联系在一起呢

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So, these rulers have a coercive ability in creating, and I'll come back to this, large standing armies that will be arriving not immediately, they're not arriving by train or being helicoptered in at some distant command, but they will get there if there's trouble.

这些统治者们以铁腕构建极权,稍后我会谈到这一点,一只大规模的军队,在当时很难进行远程调度,因为他们没法坐火车或者搭直升机立刻赶到,但他们最终会到达事发处

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