Then what I'm going to do for the last twenty or twenty-five minutes is talk about the Dutch Republic.

接下来在这节课最后的二十到二十五分钟内,我会讲些关于荷兰共和国的知识

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This is not to say that the Dutch don't fight the English, too, because they do.

这并不是说荷兰人不与英国人为敌,因为他们确实开战过

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But when you look at the experience of Britain and the Dutch Republic, they do share things that, in a way, determine the kind of political economy that they would have.

但当你反观英国和荷兰共和国历史时,会发现他们都有一些共同点,在某种程度上,这些特点,决定了他们所具有的政治经济的类型

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