Bourgeois and burghers, as I said last time, are urban residents who are losing their privileges on the continent to big-time absolute states.

中产阶级和市民,正如我上次所讲的,这些城市居民是那些在欧洲大陆,被绝对主义国家剥夺权利的人

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one of my life goal, life-long goals is to visit every continent.

这是我的一个人生目标，去每一个大洲旅行。

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That is to say, discover an entirely new continent, a new world, so to speak, the new world of Machiavelli.

也就是说发现了全新的大陆，全新的世界，属于马奇亚维利的全新世界。

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If you go onto the continent,though, they tended to be interrupted by World War I and World War II.

如果你们往欧洲大陆国家那里考虑,一战和二战期间的数据几乎是没有存档的

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And which, in the case of England, the civil war was largely fought, to a great extent anyway, trying to prevent the English monarchy from taking on characteristics of those emerging absolute states on the continent.

其中之一是英国,［1648年的英国内战称之为 "英国资产阶级革命"］,这在很大程度上,是为了阻止英国的君主制,转变为欧洲大陆上新兴的绝对主义

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Machiavelli, you remember, claimed to have discovered a new continent, new modes and orders.

马基雅维利，被认为是,发现了一块新的领域，新的模式和秩序。

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It was Hobbes who helped to make this new continent habitable.

而正是霍布斯,使得这块新的领域适于研究。

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