So you'd have a patron who would be higher class, richer, more powerful, have some political power, and you would be loyal to your patron, and your patron would then represent you in court, try to get you jobs, try to get you more business, do all the kinds of things that patrons do for their clients.

要找个比你社会地位高，比你有钱有权，有一定政治影响力的庇护人，你也要忠诚于他，庇护人会在法庭上代表你，帮你找工作，帮你介绍生意，各种庇护人为被庇护人做的事。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

What it meant was that in principle, your power was greater than any challenge that could come from those underlings, those craven reptiles in your imagination over whom you ruled.

这意味着在原则上,你的权利大到,不会受到属下的任何质疑,在你的眼里他们应该是低声下气的应声虫

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

While I was there, many many of people said to me: look, we want you to succeed we believe you mind your doing, we know you have good intentions and we hate these people when they were in power, but we have to live here, t succeed, and many people have come here and not succeed before you.

当我在那边的时候，很多人对我说：,我们想要你成功，我们知道你很在意你所做的事，我们知道你是好意的，恨这些掌权的人，但是我们得在这里生活，如果你不能成功，在你之前也有很多人失败了，and，if，you，can’

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