Had he merely caught the nearest way?

他仅仅是幸运吗
He had embraced the national identity of being French

他已经拥有了法国身份
and he did take ideas seriously.

并做出了慎重思考
It's possible to argue, I would believe this,

这还有待考证我相信
that the philosophes eventually won out

哲学家们最终胜出了
and he saw the Revolution as a liberating experience for France

他将大革命看作是对法兰西的解放
and the construction of a new way of imagining the state.

并建立一个崭新的国家
Of course, he turns that into

结果却将这一切变成了
out and out political repression in his own country

彻头彻尾的国内政治镇压
and the megalomaniac conquest of all of these other places.

和对其他国家的疯狂侵略
When he married Josephine, who once somebody said

当他迎娶约瑟芬时有人说
would have drunk gold out of the skull of any of her lovers,

这个女人会榨干她任何一个情人的钱