来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：现代早期英国社会 第2集 第2集》

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  At the top the great merchants of the cities
  在城市中
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  could be men of prodigious wealth
  那些财力雄厚的商人
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  who were generally also the rulers of their towns.
  他们渐渐组成该市的统治阶级
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  To give you just one example,
  给你们举个例子吧
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  a man named Robert Jannys,
  某人叫罗伯特·詹尼斯
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  He was a grocer and he was the mayor of the city of Norwich,
  他是个杂货商 也是诺维奇的市长
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  here in the East Anglian region, in the early sixteenth century.
  在十六世纪的东盎格鲁地区
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  In 1523, a tax was levied for which the return survived
  一份1523年的政府征税申报单被留存下来
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  and so we know that Robert Jannys' personal tax return
  从罗伯特·詹尼斯的个人纳税申报单可知
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  was bigger than the entire city of Rochester,
  他一个人的纳税金额比罗切斯特整座城的还多
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  which was the biggest city down here in Kent.
  罗切斯特市是肯特这里最大的城市
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  He was a plutocrat and there were men of such prodigious wealth
  他只是众多富豪之中的一个而已