A few years before that, it might get you burned at the stake.

几年前，电可能让你毁于一旦。

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For holding firm to this idea of plural worlds, Giordano Bruno spent 7 years in a dungeon; then, on 17 February 1600, he was led to a public square in Rome and burned at the stake.

为了坚持自己的多地球理论，布鲁诺在地牢里呆了七年；之后，在1600年2月，他被烧死在罗马的一个公共广场上。

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Outside the royal residence, Ferrando, the captain of the guard, recounts the story of a gypsy woman who was burned at the stake years ago for bewitching the count's infant brother.

皇宫外，侍卫长费兰多讲述了吉普赛老妇人的故事，当年这位吉普赛老妇人被当作蛊惑伯爵幼弟的“巫婆”抓了起来并送上火刑台烧死了。

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In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France.

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Burned at the stake for heresy, Joan is posthumously rehabilitated by the Catholic Church a generation later, and in 1920 she is made a saint.

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