It gradually expanded in size, reaching to the Southern Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea, and emerging as a dynastic state.

其领土逐渐扩大,延伸至乌拉尔山脉南端和里海,并发展成为王朝国家

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It didn't serve the dynastic interests of the dynasty, which he identified with the Russian people.

全然没有为王朝的利益服务,而这点上他和俄国人民的看法一致

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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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So, the size of the armies for these megalomaniac wars, these dynastic wars between Austria and France and then they changed partners in 1756, and all of this business.

随着战争的规模也日益增大,各国争相扩军,例如法国与奥地利之间的王朝战争,这两个国家在1756年成为盟友,战争也随之结束了

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