This is drawing upon an excellent book by Sarah Maza.

这是萨拉·马扎的一本著作中的例子
It's a very well-known episode, but it shows you

这是非常有名的一个事件它昭示了
and ties together the sense of the nation along with the impact

国家观念是如何受1778以来的第三批
of this sort of third generation of Enlightenment hacks after 1778,

启蒙主义文人影响的
to understand their role in the erosion of a sense

这有助于帮忙我们去理解
that the monarchy was immutable in representing the rights of the nation,

他们对削弱君权神授思想所起的作用
even if that construct was just coming into being.

尽管这种国家观念的构想尚处萌芽阶段
In this book called--what's it called?

在这本叫做
Private Lives and public Affairs.

《个人生活与公共事务》的书中
Maza takes a couple of cause célèbres.

马扎举了几个名躁一时的案件
Cause célèbre would be like one of the things

这些案件就像
that you find in the tabloids in Britain or the U.S.

你们在英国或美国的小报上看到的一样