When they send this guy called the Duke of Alba up to the Netherlands, he burns people to the stake and all this kind of stuff.

当时西班牙派遣阿尔瓦公爵到荷兰,他实行暴政,把人用火刑处死

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so you've got the Duke of York, who's a relative,

有约克公爵，他是皇室的亲戚，

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But,basically the State was winning the battle against the nobles, and you could still be the Count of anywhere,or the Duke of anywhere, and you can't mobilize goodies to give to local people except on a very local scale.

不过,总体上这个国家还是战胜了贵族,而且你仍可以当任何地方的伯爵或公爵,你不能把任意调集物资,给当地人,除非是地方标准之下

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What would the Duke of Marlborough ? have been without Louis XIV?

马博罗公爵若少了法王路易，XIV，世,会是什么光景？

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