It was not like they were giving them a great deal, this was part of constructing their own business expansion.
并不是良心发现,而是为了生意扩张。
And that created enormous challenges, of our capability and systems and process to deal with this tremendous growth and expansion.
这也为我们带来了极大地挑战,公司的能力和机制与,快速的成长和扩张不符。
So, Peter the Great, despite his dramatic expansion of the Russian empire, does not get this outlet on the Black Sea.
所以,彼得大帝,虽然为俄帝国的扩张立下汗马功劳,仍旧没能夺取黑海的入海口
So, I use the word colony because that's what we have for all such establishments of the kind we're talking about.
所以我之所以用殖民地这个词,是因为描述这种扩张行为我们只有这个词
It would be armed and expansive. Machiavelli's republic feeds on conflict, on war and conquest.
它将是尚武的充满扩张性的,马基雅维利的,共和国依赖冲突,战争和征服。
We're much more expansive in mortgage financing than we were.
相对于过去,抵押融资规模有了很大的扩张
Or was it 1840? Or was it really in the wake of the Mexican War when you get this massive expansion into the great southwest and the Mexican Session which we'll take up actually next week?
还是1840年,在墨西哥战争的前夕,美国大举扩张进入,广阔的西南部地区及墨西哥会议的召开,这些其实我们下周都会讲到
And Mark has been extraordinary, as a leader, in maintaining a very high bar and at times, walking away from people who are receiving outstanding recommendations but either don't fit from a cultural standpoint or they're not going to scale and they'd be the wrong person a year or two from now.
作为Facebook的领导者,马克始终坚持选人标准,从不手软,他经常会放弃一些,得到强有力推荐的应聘者,他们要么是在文化方面不契合,要么是因为,如果公司没打算扩张,那他们在一到两年内,会成为错误选择。
Now, let's take a look at the world of the Mediterranean and see how Greek expansion worked.
现在,我们来研究地中海地区,看看古希腊是如何扩张的
They expand north to Archangel, so this gives them a port, but a frozen one.
他们向北扩张到阿尔汉格尔,有了一个港口,但常年冰冻
So, between 1650 and 1750, and this is right out of what you're reading, the rulers of continental Europe, of the biggest states extended their power.
所以从1650年到1750年这段时期,这正好与你们阅读的内容一致,欧陆上,统治者们扩张了他们的势力
This follows the arrival of the expansion of serfdom.
这是随着农奴制的扩张发生的
Peter the Great expands territory beyond the Euro mountains along the Caspian Sea at the expense of the Turks.
彼得大帝越过欧洲山脉,沿着里海扩张,吞并着土耳其的土地
We can exaggerate the power of Peter the Great in this vast empire that's expanding south and already expanding toward Siberia and such distant places.
彼得大帝在自己幅员辽阔的帝国享有至高权力,这是怎么夸张都不过分的,他不断地向南边扩张,版图甚至已经触及到了,西伯利亚这样的边远地区
And, as I already said, south and southeast to the expense of the Turks.
而且,我已经说过,向南和东南扩张到了土耳其
The Russian empire, the state of Muscovy had already expanded greatly, but it's really Peter the Great, it's the big guy who expanded Russia, its territorial size enormously.
沙俄帝国在此之前已有大幅扩张,但是,是彼得大帝,是这个大家伙扩张了俄国领土,他统治下的沙俄幅员辽阔
Serfdom expands along with the Russian empire.
农奴制度随着俄帝国的扩张而扩张
So, now I hope you have in your mind a picture of the way the Greek world had expanded by the time this wave of colonization was complete--pretty complete, sometime in the seventh century B.C.
希望现在你脑海中有一幅,那时候希腊世界扩张的地图,在公元前七世纪的某一阶段,形成了一个完整的殖民浪潮,相当完整
There are more people who can work to increase the production, but beyond that point there are more people to feed than the production can produce, and that leads to a desire for expansion of the land available for cultivation.
越来越多的人从事工作,生产力得以提高,但是一旦突破临界值,花费就要超过所得了,它导致了对土地扩张的需求
People never thought of insurance as the same as a bank, but since this is relatively recently-- that was only nine years ago--at this time, it means that we are now seeing an expansion of our banking system in the U.S.
人们从来不认为保险和银行是一回事,但是从那法案之后它们就是差不多的了,这只不过是九年前的法案,但是现在,这意味着在美国,银行系统得到了扩张
Next time, I will take up the story of the expansion of the world of the polis, which takes the form of colonization.
下一次课,我们从城邦的扩张说起,这也是之后殖民统治的雏形
The date that's sort of typical for the general phenomenon of colonization coming out of the mother cities of Greece is again that date we keep talking about, 750 roughly.
殖民,成为这一典型时期的普遍现象,古希腊人离开故土,开始了对外扩张,也就是我们一再提起的时期,大约在公元前750年
So, for absolute rulers, the link to religion you can read about, but there's always the sense that he or she is doing God's will by exploiting ordinary peasants, ordinary people and conquering other territories.
所以对于绝对统治者,你会在书本上读到他们与宗教之间的联系,但是存在这样一种观点,即绝对统治者是代天授命,所以他们有理由剥削民众并且扩张领土
So, in all of this, what he does is he makes, to use an expression that I've already used before in the context of absolutism, he makes the Boyars, while he's building his navy and expanding Russia, he makes the Boyar junior partners in absolutism.
所以,通过所有的这些事情,用我之前用过的一个词来形容,他使得波维尔们,当他在建海军和扩张领土时,他使得波维尔贵族臣服在他的绝对权威之下
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