在文艺复兴时期，女人们会用莨宕植物的提取液来护理眼睛，它有扩大瞳孔的功效，能让女人看上去眼镜更加细长，外表更加漂亮。

During the Renaissance period, women applied an extract of the belladonna plant to their eyes to dilate their pupils and give a wide-eyed, beautiful appearance.

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虽然长期来看，城市规模的大小和数量上不断扩大，但一定时期也会遭受缩减下降。

Though cities grew in size and number for long periods, they could decline and fall, too.

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与其他富国不同，美国缺少一种“自动稳定机制在经济衰退时期，这种机制就开始运作并且帮助刺激扩大需求失业保险及其有限。

Unlike other rich countries, America lacks the “automatic stabilisers” that kick in during times of recession to help boost demand.Unemployment benefit is extremely limited.

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By the 1690s, 150,000 soldiers. The French army, which was then in the 1690s 180,000 people.

到了17世纪90年代,规模扩大到十五万人,而那个时期的法国军队有十八万人

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