One thing absolute monarchs don't want is they don't want impediments to their personal rule.

绝对统治者厌恶的一点,就是妨碍他们个人专制的绊脚石

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What was a kind of impediment to their personal rule?

怎样算是妨碍他们的个人统治呢

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So,if you're not willing to accept the no branching rule, if it strikes you as a bizarre thing to throw in to personal identity, maybe you need to reject the personality theory.

所以若你不愿意接受无分支规定，如果你觉得这个人认同感里很奇怪，也许你就需要否决人格理论了。

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So, they make their personal or dynastic rule absolute based on loyalty to them as individuals and not to the state as some sort of abstraction.

所以,君主将个人或者王朝的绝对统治,建立在［民众］对其统治家族的忠诚,而非国家这样的抽象概念上

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