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圣女贞德被处以火刑。

Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake.

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Look what happens to Galileo, who was lucky enough not to have been burn on the stake by his friend, the pope.

看看伽利略的遭遇吧,他足够幸运,没有被他的教皇朋友绑在火刑柱上烧死

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These were real ways that people were executed-- stakes, massacres, and this sort of business.

这些都是真实发生过的刑罚方式,火刑,屠戮,等等之类的

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When they send this guy called the Duke of Alba up to the Netherlands, he burns people to the stake and all this kind of stuff.

当时西班牙派遣阿尔瓦公爵到荷兰,他实行暴政,把人用火刑处死

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