You see, in the previous empires, like the Assyrian Empire, or these kinds of-- the Egyptian Empire, when people conquered other peoples, often all they wanted was tribute.

之前的各个帝国，比如亚述帝国，或者埃及帝国-,当他们战胜其他民族时，往往只是觊觎贡品。

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or any of the countries that used to be in the empire for exceedingly good charity work

或者来自曾经是英国殖民地的做出突出慈善事业的人，

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The Russian empire was rather like Charlemagne's empire in 800 in the coronation at Aachen or Aix-la-Chapelle and all of that.

沙皇俄国倒是非常像查理曼帝国,即公元800年在亚琛加冕称王的查理曼帝国

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And Machiavelli wrote, of course, the dominant form of political organization was the empire or, to speak more precisely, the Christian empire.

当然马奇亚维利所写的，优势政治组织模式,是帝国，或更确切地说，是基督帝国。

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God was so afraid of us that He actually doubted His hold on His own empire, an empire that He was only actually able to maintain because of good luck or something like superior military firepower, but certainly nothing as grand and as absolute as omnipotence."

上帝是如此害怕我们,都开始怀疑自己能否驾驭自己的帝国了，他维系这个帝国,靠的是运气或者是强大的火力，绝非是靠什么伟大的无所不能的神力“

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or different parts of the Roman Empire.

还有罗马帝国其他地区。

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Or, if you take almost anywhere else-- the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before it broke up, Vienna was now this over-sized capital that-- in a very, very small country, but it was balanced off by Budapest.

或者,想想其它任何地方,分崩离析前的奥匈帝国,维也纳在这个狭小的国家里,算是特大型的首都,但还有布达佩斯能够与其成对峙之势

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All states, all dominions that have held and do hold empire over man " are either republics or principalities," he says in the opening sentence of chapter 1.

所有国家，所有领地,只要是曾或正让君权凌驾人民之上,要不是共和就是君权“,他在第一章的开头即如是说到。

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