If you look at the world of Mycenae once again, we've already seen this, you have a despotism of some kind.

如果你重温一下迈锡尼,我们之前也讲过,你会从某种程度上想到专制

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This will be important to try and understand the French revolution, La Revolution francaise, that there's a difference between absolutism and despotism.

这个观点对于尝试理解法国大革命很重要,绝对主义和专制主义是有区别的

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There can be no relations of trust in a large, imperial despotism.

那样的社会可以不需信任的关系,存在于大型，帝国的专制之中。

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