The true ruler is the person who both acts on his own interest and of course knows what those interests are.

真正的统治者,仅干对自身有利的事,而且知道有哪些利益对他有好处。

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So it's the ultimate ruler.

所以，总统是最高的统治者。

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But there's extra, again, insult to injury, when the person's got to remember that he used to be something extraordinary, a ruler.

但当这人不得不记着，他曾经位高权重，是统治者的时候,这又一次，是在伤口上撒盐。

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And by this time Mark Antony had palled up with Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Octavian beat both of them, and he became the sole ruler of the empire in 27 BCE.

安东尼与埃及女王克利奥帕特拉先后自杀，屋大维击败了他们两人，于公元前27年成为了帝国的独裁者。

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King Goll is a mythical Irish ruler who goes mad in the heat of battle.

郭尔王是传说中的爱尔兰统治者,他在战斗激烈时发疯了。

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It was not of a brutal despotic ruler, because they didn't have any such thing.

并非是一个暴政野蛮的独裁者,因为他们从来没有过这样的人

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What you really want-- a ruler may not be enough, but maybe it's enough.

你还需要什么,一把尺子也许还不够,但可能也足够了

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But there's a theoretical framework, and it will catch up with the French monarchs, among others, later-- that the ruler must be a father, a benevolent figure.

不过,有一种理论框架,使法国的君主终自食恶果,这种理论认为统治者必是父亲一样善良的人

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He retorted, "Who made you chief and ruler over us?

那人说“谁立你作我们的首领和审判官呢？

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And this universality was given expression in Dante's famous treatise, De Monarchia, of monarchy, that set out a model for a universal Christian state, based on the unity and oneness of the human race under a Christian ruler.

而这种特性可追溯,至但丁的著名论述《论王权》,探讨君主政权,这设定了一种普遍基督国的模式，根据统一,与独一的人种皆受基督王权的统治。

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Again, if you just thought about life as a ruler, well pretty good thinking about it in isolation.

再一次，如果你只考虑了统治者的生活，非常好地单独考虑。

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So like the eastern states, you have a powerful ruler who is a warlord.

就像东方国家一样,有一个热爱战争的强权统治者

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So here's the long ruler and here's this thing moving.

这里有把很长的尺子,而这里有个物体在运动

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Now, what did it mean to be an absolute ruler?

那么绝对统治者到底意味着什么呢

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There was a case of a very minor insurrection in an obscure Italian city in 1848 where the people of the town literally locked the ruler out of the town-- and Italy remains decentralized.

在1848年,有一场小规模叛乱,发生在一个意大利的小城里,人们把统治者锁在城门外面,如今意大利仍然是四分五裂的

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Part of being an absolute ruler is being able to levy taxes against those people who have the joy or the extreme misfortune of living in those domains, and more about that later.

绝对统治者的一个权利,就是能向那些领土内的富商巨贾,或是一贫如洗的穷人征收赋税,这个稍后再详说

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