Every large house is a real feudal fortress made, it is true, only of sun-baked clay, but with battlements, turrets, loopholes, drawbridges, etc.

诚然，每一幢大房子都是真正的封建堡垒，只不过是用日晒过的黏土建造的，但上面有城垛、炮塔、炮眼、吊桥等等。

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Similarly, Louis Hartz, who sometimes disagreed with the Progressives, argued that Americans accepted laissez-faire capitalism without challenge because they lacked a feudal, precaptialist past.

同样，与进步派观点相左的路易斯·哈茨认为，美国人之所以能够毫无异议地接受自由放任的资本主义，是因为他们缺乏封建的、前资本主义的历史。

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It usually follows from this that somebody like this points out that whereas we all know that a democratic society is the best society to live in, poetry prefers feudal society: it makes better poetry.

赞成这种观点的人指出,虽然我们都知道,民主社会是最适合生存的，诗歌却更喜欢封建社会：,因为封建社会更适合诗歌创作。

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He had asked Mr Millin to be his personal piper: not a feudal but a military arrangement.

ECONOMIST: Bill Millin

Admittedly, it would leave the top titles as exclusively a feudal relic rather than sometimes a badge of actual distinction.

ECONOMIST: To sir, with confusion

They will have to excavate it, before trying to puzzle out why a Feudal Japanese warrior is standing next to what appears to be an American cheerleader dressed as a Rhinemaiden, who is nonetheless in some way a Greek warrior woman.

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