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by the very poor of their social betters.

而进行的血腥杀戮活动
Well, that's pretty much nonsense.

这个基本上就是胡扯
Secondly, that it's a reflex action to save the republic.

二是一种拯救共和国的本能反应
That makes more sense, basically,

基本上更有说服力
and somebody in the 1930s,

二十世纪三十年代
before there was really quantitative history, went to look.

在量化历史研究产生之前
A guy called Donald Greer said,

一个叫唐纳·德格里尔人说
"Let's look at the victims of the terror."

"看看恐怖政策的受害者"
What he finds fits into where we started,

他的观点正是我们开始说到的
which is Maximilien Robespierre

即马克西米连·罗伯斯庇尔
and his attempt to save the Revolution.

和他拯救共和国的努力
Most people in the terror,

大多数人都活在恐怖政策的阴影中