as I said before, there weren't ten people in

如我之前所说 1789年在法国
France who considered themselves republicans

不超过十个人认为他们自己是
that is who wanted a republic in 1789 and how it was that

希望建立一个共和国的共和主义者
two or three years later, in 1793 it became easy for

而两三年后在1793年对公众来说
the majority of the population to imagine a life without any king at all.

废除君王再也不是什么匪夷所思的事情
Sixth--and here's the role of the Grub Street hacks,

第六这些边缘文人们
of the third division of Enlightenment thinkers,

是第三类启蒙思想家
that I'll talk about in just a few minutes

我会在随后的时间里谈谈
they heaped abuse against what they considered to be unearned,

他们攻击那些不劳而获的
unjustified privilege and, how can one put this disrespected the monarchy

有不正当的特权的并且怎么说呢
and the nobles who hung around the king.

他们蔑视君主制度以及国王周围的贵族们
One can say in hindsight

可能有人说这是事后诸葛亮