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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The king’s rule was one “of great difficulty” as public opinion had turned against absolute rule.

在公众反对绝对威权的情况下，国王统治面临“极大困难”。

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

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The Ryder Cup is won by two or three players having stellar weeks, winning four out of five points, and I would not rule out Darren Clarke being the absolute star of the event.

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He's Africa's last absolute monarch and at the peak of his rule.

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