When public opinion is particularly polarised, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can rise above "mere" politics and "embody" a spirit of national unity.

当公众舆论两极分化时，就像佛朗哥政权结束后那样，君主可以超越“纯粹的”政治，成为国家统一的精神“象征”。

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The US Fish and Wildlife Service said that nearly a billion monarchs have disappeared from overwintering sites since 1990.

美国鱼类和野生动物管理局表示，自1990年来，近十亿只帝王蝶在越冬地点消失了。

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Many pubs have old names referring to monarchs, such as The King's Head or The Queen Victoria, but of course this doesn't mean they are only for kings or queens.

许多酒吧都有提及君主的老名字，比如“国王的头”或“维多利亚女王”，当然，这并不意味着它们只为国王或女王服务。

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There they leave their eggs on milkweed plants, with the next generation of monarchs appearing a short time later.

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One thing absolute monarchs don't want is they don't want impediments to their personal rule.

绝对统治者厌恶的一点,就是妨碍他们个人专制的绊脚石

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An omnipresent bureaucracy with its detailed and all encompassing records gives the clearest picture of the power exercised by the centralized monarchs of the Mycenaean Age."

一个无处不在的官僚体制,所留下详尽细致,无所不包的记录,清晰地描绘了,迈锡尼时期中央集权统治的实行"

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Small medieval differences in the absolutism of English and Spanish monarchs were amplified by historical chance.

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In days of old, money-strapped monarchs reduced the gold or silver content of their coins.

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Monarchs were not far behind the church in their suspicion, requiring books to be licensed.

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