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Instead the population was crowded into large villages and small towns － so that their Spartan overlords could control or overawe them, presumably － and the olive groves were tended by helots.

相反，人口集中在大的村庄和小城镇中，－－也许这样，他们的斯巴达统治者就可以控制并威慑他们－－橄榄园则由国家拥有的奴隶看管。

Babylonian Jewry enjoyed peace and prosperity under the Parthian and Sassanian rulers, with only occasional episodes of persecution.

巴比伦的犹太人所享有的和平与繁荣，根据帕提亚人，并sassanian统治者，只是偶尔发生的迫害。

This paternalistic image of the ruler or the government provides a key to understanding not only political phenomena in traditional China but also developments in modern China.

这种家长式风格的统治者是理解中国传统的政治现象以及现代中国发展的一枚钥匙。

Time and again, the answer lies not in luck, nature, the strictures of this or that religion, or the plots of perfidious foreigners, but largely in the choices of rulers and ruled.

一次又一次，答案告诉我们这不在于国家的命运，性质，这种或那种宗教制约，或少部分背信弃义的外国人，而主要是统治者和被统治者的选择。

The seeds of Pharisaism were planted during the Babylonian Captivity (587 - 536 BC), and a clearly defined party emerged during the revolt of the Maccabees (167 - 165 BC) against the Seleucid rulers of Syria - Palestine.

种子种植Pharisaism在巴比伦笼养（ 587 -5 36年），并明确界定党的过程中出现的反抗的马加比（ 1 67- 16 5年）对塞琉统治者叙利亚-巴勒斯坦。

And with few modern industries to man, the southern ruling class saw little point in mass education.

由于不需要操控众多的现代产业，南方的统治者没有意识到大众教育的重要性。

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。

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。

China's rulers supremely confident in their own tradition, professed little need of Western goods and ideas.

中国的统治者对待自己的传统及其自信，声称对待西方的商品和思想根本不需要。

Between the 10th to 13th centuries, the Christian kingdoms of Europe made numerous attempts to reconquer the birthplace of Jesus Christ from its Mohammedan-Arab rulers.

十世纪至十三世纪之间，欧洲的基督教王国用各种努力来企图从穆罕默德—阿拉伯的统治者手上夺回耶稣的诞生地。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。