I lay awake nights,wishing to find the perfect lens - an instrument of great magnifying power.

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Sweden kind of disappears from the great power state when they're defeated by Peter the Great in--when is it?--1709.

在1709年被彼得大帝打败后,［此处指的是1709年的波尔塔瓦之战］

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Or Augustus--he had taken the title Augustus by this time, which means "the great"--he himself said, "I transferred the Republic from my power to the dominion of the Senate and the people of Rome."

或者奥古斯都。。。当时他已经使用了这个头衔，意思是“尊崇“，他说，“我已将共和国重还给,元老院及罗马人民统治“

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Peter the Great was a huge sort of power-forward-sized guy at a time when people were very small.

在那个民众极端渺小的时代,彼得大帝却手握重权

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