He and his family, the emperor's family, - was, in a sense, the patron for the whole people of the Roman Empire-- - at least for all the Romans-- the paterfamilias of the entire empire.

他及其家庭，帝王的家庭，某种意义上说，就是整个罗马帝国的庇护者-,至少是所有罗马人的-,他成了整个帝国的家长。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

different buildings that are famous in New York like the Empire State, bridges, you know, the Brooklyn Bridge.

画在各种纽约著名建筑的木块上，像帝国大厦、布鲁克林大桥。

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This is in a state that barely extends beyond Brandenburg and Pomerania in what now is Western Poland, and still Prussia in the unified Germany.

当时的普鲁士基本上就是勃兰登堡和波美拉尼亚,在德意志第二帝国时期仍保留普鲁士王国的建制,历史上的波美拉尼亚现位于波兰西部

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

You really have, therefore, for in some way the first time in history, a dream of making all of his empire basically universal, a dream of a universal vision, for one world, under one kind of culture, one kind of language.

因此某种程度上说，这是历史上第一次出现，梦想建立统一的帝国，同一个世界的愿景，同一种文化，同一种语言。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

First, the Treaty declared that the individual sovereign state would henceforth become the highest level of authority; you might say, putting an end once and for all " to the universalist claims of the Holy Roman Empire.

第一，条约宣称,各个主权国家,都因此而成为各自国家里最高的权力;,永远终结了,普遍意义上的“神圣罗马帝国。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选