The other scary thing for the Dutch is, of course, the big guy down south.

另一个令荷兰人害怕的情形就是,南部势力的狼子野心

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The armies of the state, as you will see in a while, are growing, and moreover, "You, oh big guy, you will assert our own privileges.

而国家的军队正在增长,稍后你们将会看到这一点,此外"您必须保证我们的特权

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The myth, perpetuated by De Gaulle, the big guy, was that in France everybody had resisted except for a few elites, and then France had risen up to follow his great shadow and had thrown off the oppressor and founded a republic.

传说中,这也被戴高乐延续了,大个子,在法国每个人,除了一小撮精英以外都参与了抵抗,然后法国跟随着他的光辉,崛起了,赶走了压迫者,建立了共和国

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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

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Peter the Great was a big guy, 6'7".

彼得大帝是一个高个子 身高两米

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But, anyway, this poor guy's not doing very well up there and becomes this sort of big spectacle.

但是这个可怜的人在这上面肯定不好受,还成为众人的焦点

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In about 1844, this kind of crazy guy took a big knife and he slit the throat of his mother and his two sisters, and they were--the police were looking for him.

在1844年,有个疯子用刀,将她母亲和两个妹妹割喉杀死,然后警察开始追捕他

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