It has a lot to do with who they thought they were, the paintings they bought, the paintings they commissioned, the way they viewed themselves.

也与他们如何认识自己紧密相连,他们买什么样的画 他们委托画什么样的画,他们对自己的看法

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And so in the case of A Mask here, it's the Lord John Egerton, the Earl of Bridgewater who commissioned Milton to write a piece honoring his own inauguration in his new role as the Lord President of Wales.

所以在《面具》这个例子中，是贵族约翰埃杰顿，布里奇沃特伯爵,指派弥尔顿去写一篇文章,来歌颂他掌管威尔士的就职典礼的。

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They commissioned a study, a cost-benefit analysis of smoking in the Czech Republic, and what their cost-benefit analysis found was the government gains by having Czech citizens smoke.

他们资助了一项研究，进行在捷克吸烟的成本效益分析，分析结果显示,让捷克人民吸烟，能让政府获利。

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