That is, this kind of aristocratic outfit, aristocracy of birth, which is legitimized by heroic behavior on the battlefield.

也就是说,由于他们在战场上的英雄行为,他们的贵族的身份和贵族出身是被认可的

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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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