这里从未有让任何一个外来势力通过建立中央统治而甘心臣服，19世纪的英国试过，20世纪前苏联也试过。

No outside power has ever prevailed by establishing central rule, as Britain learnt in the 19th century and the Soviet Union in the 20th.

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拉脱维亚几百年来一直受到各种外来势力如德国，瑞典和俄罗斯的统治，对于这样一个国家，歌声总是一种维系民族认同感的重要手段。

Singing has always been a crucial means of maintaining a sense of national identity in a country which for hundreds of years was controlled variously by Germans, Swedes and Russians.

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在20世纪60年代到70年代统治巴西的将军们对外来者入侵亚马逊有着异常的恐惧。

The generals who ruled Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s had a paranoid fear of an invasion of the Amazon.

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That Joseph, a Semitic foreigner, could be elevated to an important post, the post of governor, is a little less surprising, if we suppose there was a Semitic regime.

约瑟夫，外来闪族，可能被提拨到高位，统治者的位置，这也就不那么令人惊奇了，如果我们假设当时有一个闪族王国。

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So, they would be alien bosses in a different territory.

他们成为了外来的统治者

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