查理一世统治了十一年。

Charles I ruled for eleven years.

《牛津词典》

那个家族统治了好几代，他们显然喜爱权力带来的虚饰。

The family ruled for several generations and evidently loved the trappings of power.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

他是个军事独裁者，在一场军事政变后统治了这个国家。

He was a military strongman who ruled the country after a coup.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

These are churches of almost every imaginable stripe, and they're springing up and, from a mainstream perspective, they're quickly eroding the authority of the Church of England.

几乎每寸可以想到的土地上都有教堂，从主流角度来说，他们迅速成长，他们很快就侵蚀了英国的教会统治。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So, what happens with municipal privileges, towns that had municipal privileges, these are eroded and then virtually eliminated by powerful potentates.

地方特权怎么样了,拥有地方特权的城镇又发生了什么,绝对统治者削弱并最终废除了地方特权

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

They destroy these helpless but stoic humans who are chafing under their tyrannical and unjust and uncaring rule. In the biblical story, when the Israelites told the story, they modified it.

他们把那些在他们残暴，不公平统治下,无助又愤愤不平的人,全部消灭了，当犹太人来讲这个故事时，他们对此做了修改。

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