Wednesday I'm going to talk about exceptions to absolutism, what the Dutch and what the English had in common that gave them very different political outcomes.

下节课我们将会谈到绝对主义的一些特例,荷兰和英国有何共同之处,以及它们产生的迥异的政治结果

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The Netherlands also resisted absolutism, and the Dutch Republic remained the Dutch Republic; although, for reasons that we'll see later, the Dutch Republic ceases to be a great power in the 18th century.

荷兰抵制绝对统治的政体,保留了共合制,然而,后面我们将说到,荷兰共和国在十八世纪没落了

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You're not responsible for these paintings, but we'll illustrate ways in which the Dutch Republic, and their social structure, and what they emphasized, and who they thought they were was very different than, for example, la belle France.

你不必深究这些画作,不过我们将从荷兰的民主制度,社会结构,和他们自己所强调的特征上解释这些画的含义,他们认为自己和其他人很不一样,例如,和美丽的法国之间的不同

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