Current studies of early modern absolutism—rule by one person with absolute authority—emphasize continual negotiations between ruler and ruled.

现代早期绝对主义的研究强调统治者与被统治者之间的持续谈判。

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As a general rule, it's important to differentiate between effectiveness and absolute time commitments.

一般说来，区别效率和绝对的时间投入很重要。

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That's really the defining moment in absolute rule.

那真的是绝对主义［确立］的决定性时刻

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There is no middle ground between governing and being governed, between absolute rule and freedom."

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So, they make their personal or dynastic rule absolute based on loyalty to them as individuals and not to the state as some sort of abstraction.

所以,君主将个人或者王朝的绝对统治,建立在［民众］对其统治家族的忠诚,而非国家这样的抽象概念上

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There is nothing more symptomatic of the growth of absolute rule than the growth of powerful armies.

没有什么比日益扩充的强大军队,更能代表绝对主义了

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It's as if the pope with absolute rule, a throne, pomp and circumstance taps into a repressed fantasy of crowns and ermine.

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Politics has been a halting movement from the selfishness of absolute rule to the selfless sharing of power with ever larger portions of the population.

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With only this illusory exception, the general rule is an absolute.

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