you could imagine a world without a king and a world without a queen.

人们能够设想一个没有国王和王后的社会
When they bring them back, they bring the old boy and his wife back

当他们把这个长不大的国王和他的妻子
from Varennes, which is in the northeast of France,

从法国东北部的瓦伦镇带回来时
the National Guard turns their backs in serious disrespect to the carriage,

国民自卫军非常无礼地背对着国王的马车
and they hold their guns upside down.

并且倒持佩枪
At that point, that's la fin des haricots, the end of the green beans,

那一刻对国王而言按法语的说法
as the French say, for the king.

一切都完了[字面意思指青豆的末端]
But this process started earlier.

人们积怨已深这不过是个导火索
The third-string hacks of the Enlightenment had something to do with it.

这和启蒙运动中的第三代文人不无关系
Let me give you a couple of examples also from other friends.

我给你们举几个从朋友那里看来的例子
But really good serious work has been done

不过过去的二十到二十五年间
in the last twenty or twenty-five years.

确实有了很多优秀严谨的研究