Sweden kind of disappears from the great power state when they're defeated by Peter the Great in--when is it?--1709.

在1709年被彼得大帝打败后,［此处指的是1709年的波尔塔瓦之战］

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I remember, for example, during the Vietnam War when Richard Nixon spoke about achieving peace with honor, and this was largely mocked as a kind of ludicrous idea.

我还记得越南战争时,尼克松说,要通过荣誉之战赢得和平,这滑稽的想法在当时可是被嘲笑的对象。

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Now, just to give you a sense of how cold and calculated this business was, and how in many ways the first defense or justification of slavery in America is of course it certainly is by the late Antebellum Period it is an unabashed economic defense, as we'll see.

以上只是为了让你们体会到,这种交易是如何的冷酷而精明,以及战前后期第一次,美国奴隶制度的保卫与正名之战,不管怎么看,都毫无疑问,是一场赤裸裸的利益保卫战,正如我们所见

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