His invasions at one time are turned back when they literally open the dykes and flood the French armies back.

他的入侵曾一度被击退,因为荷兰人,真的"开闸泄洪",大水把法军淹得够呛

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In the mental construction of the Dutch and the English both involves one thing they don't want to be.

在心理层面上,荷兰人和英国人,都不希望这件事的发生

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This is not to say that the Dutch don't fight the English, too, because they do.

这并不是说荷兰人不与英国人为敌,因为他们确实开战过

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What the Dutch did--the Netherlands is an extraordinarily small country, and it's the most populated country in Europe, then, per square kilometre, and is now--once.

那些荷兰人...荷兰是一个,非常非常小的国家,也是当时欧洲人口密度最高的国家,如果以每平方公里人口计算,现在也是

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The other scary thing for the Dutch is, of course, the big guy down south.

另一个令荷兰人害怕的情形就是,南部势力的狼子野心

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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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At this time the Dutch are sending herrings, these long flat boats, herring ships are going all the way to Newfoundland in the seventeenth century,and Iceland, freezing off the coast of Iceland.

于此同时,荷兰人也还运输鲱鱼,这些运送鲱鱼的长板船,在十七世纪一路开往纽芬兰和冰岛等地区,并不停穿梭于被冰壳覆盖的海岸线上

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The Dutch dominate the Baltic trade.

荷兰人控制了波罗的海的贸易往来

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They basically didn't care.

而荷兰人基本都无动于衷

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