Again, these just illustrate my point, which is: Why did nobles and even other people agree to all of this?

上述内容再一次证明了我的观点,为什么贵族,甚至是普通民众会认可绝对主义

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Machiavelli wants to redirect power to some degree away from the nobles and toward the people.

马基雅维利想要在某种程度上,使权力由贵族往人民方向偏转。

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He goes out to Versailles and creates this noble theme park and sort of a Euro Disney for nobles where he can watch these nobles.

他来到凡尔赛,在那里他为贵族建了个主题公园,类似欧洲的迪斯尼乐园,在那里他可以看到贵族们的一举一动

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Now,there was even a group of nobles who believed that they could be elected, that if you had an election people would actually vote to restore the monarchy.

当时甚至有一群贵族,相信人们会选择君主制,相信如果人们有选举权,他们就会投票保留君主政体

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They will defend, quite vociferously, their privileges as townspeople against absolutist pretensions of nobles, in the case of the Netherlands and also, to an extent, in England as well.

他们奔走呼号,捍卫自己的权利,以城里人身份去反对贵族的专制野心,而在荷兰,某种程度上,同英国是一样的

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And the key to his strength,besides the church,are the nobles.

而除了教会,他的力量关键要靠贵族

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There were, to be sure, nobles in the Netherlands.

荷兰的贵族

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If you go down into France, if you go to la belle France, the painting is dominated by nobles who want pictures of themselves, or the tiresome Sun King and all his sort of miserable and all his sort of miserablehangers-on, very rich, miserable hangers-on.

如果你到了法国,"美丽"的法兰西,这些画作被,那些想为自己留像的士绅们所拥有,或者被令人讨厌的"太阳王",以及他可悲的走狗们,富有但却可悲的走狗们所拥有

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