统治者

Their own religion was polytheistic, and all the Ptolemies, like Alexander before them, accepted the status of gods even in their lifetimes

他们自己的宗教就是多神论的，所有托勒密王朝的统治者，同他们之前的亚历山大一样，活着时就接受了众神的地位。

Popery had become the world's despot.

罗马教皇已经成了全世界的独裁统治者。

Notwithstanding the general abhorrence with which it was regarded, even in Catholic countries, this terrible tribunal was again set up by popish rulers, and atrocities too terrible to bear the light of day were repeated in its secret dungeons.

虽然一般人，连罗马教国家的人，对这个机构非常憎厌，但信奉罗马教的统治者仍旧设立了这个可怕的审判所，那些在光天化日之下所不能容忍的酷刑，却在黑暗的监狱中重新演出来了。

Furthermore, as our country has actually continued the predominately English-led governing system of pre-colonial ruler, the importance of English has thus influenced the people, from pre-independence times to post-independence times, to follow one after another of sending their children to English school for education.

而且，由于我国实际上延续了前殖民统治者主要以英文为主导的管理体制，英文的重要性因此影响了人们，从独立前到独立后，纷纷把孩子送去英文学校读书的事实。

The joint effort between thousands of self-sacrificing Chinese coolies and the local Indonesians ensured that post-independence Indonesia could take over from the Dutch colonialists, these highly profitable tin mines which were able to fill the coffers of

有了千千万万华人"猪崽"的无私奉献，和当地人民一起努力，印尼独立后才能从荷兰统治者手里接受过效益极佳，可以充实国库的许多锡矿。

Bonampak's rulers sealed the tomb and placed the whole building on top,"so we do not think anybody opened the tomb in pre-Hispanic times."

波拿蒙派克的统治者密封了这个墓穴，然后把整座建筑建造在其上，所以我们不相信有任何人打开了这个前西班牙时代的墓穴。

For the severe conflict between China and west, firstly, the Presbytery was not accepted by the masses of Taiwan, the Christian cases emerged in endless.

日本殖民统治者在台推行了一套医疗与教育体系，培养了新的菁英阶层，也客观上使台湾民众改变了对于西式医疗和教育的看法，有利于长老会发展，但当局又限制其发展。

Someplace in the East lay the kingdom of Prester John -- a mythical figure who was widely believed during the Middle Ages to be the ruler of a powerful Christian nation -- which may offer Frederick a key to worldly supremacy.

在东方的某处有一块祭司王约翰的王国——在中世纪人们普遍相信他是强大的基督教王国的统治者，尽管他只是一位传说中的人物——这为腓特烈提供了一把通往世界霸权的钥匙。

This system, termed the "Principate," was far from flawless, but it provided the Roman Empire with a series of rulers who presided over the longest period of unity, peace, and prosperity that Western Europe, the Middle East and the North African seaboard have known in their entire recorded history.

这个被称做"元首政治"的体系，虽远不是完美无缺，但它为罗马帝国提供了一批统治者，他们主持了这个团结，和平，繁荣的漫长朝代，使西欧，中东，以及北非沿海地区因完整的历史记载而为人所知。

Joseph was ordained as a leader among his brethen and was brought out of prision to become a ruler in Egypt where all his breathen went and bow to him.

约瑟夫被任命的领导者在其brethen ，并带出了监狱，成为埃及的统治者，所有他breathen去屈从于他。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。