During the sixteenth century, the peacetime armies of the Continental Powers were about 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers--very, very little.

6世纪时,欧洲大陆上的强国,和平时期的军队数量很少,大约一万到两万人

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If you go onto the continent,though, they tended to be interrupted by World War I and World War II.

如果你们往欧洲大陆国家那里考虑,一战和二战期间的数据几乎是没有存档的

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Bourgeois and burghers, as I said last time, are urban residents who are losing their privileges on the continent to big-time absolute states.

中产阶级和市民,正如我上次所讲的,这些城市居民是那些在欧洲大陆,被绝对主义国家剥夺权利的人

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He spent a considerable amount of time on the European continent with his young tutee, Mr. Cavandish.

他花了大量时间,和学生研究欧洲大陆，他的学生也就是卡文迪许。

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And which, in the case of England, the civil war was largely fought, to a great extent anyway, trying to prevent the English monarchy from taking on characteristics of those emerging absolute states on the continent.

其中之一是英国,［1648年的英国内战称之为 "英国资产阶级革命"］,这在很大程度上,是为了阻止英国的君主制,转变为欧洲大陆上新兴的绝对主义

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