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Segment 18a: Turn and Face the Strange.
章節(jié)18a：改變和面對特殊時局
Ivan the Terrible had spent the first 18 years of his reign, 1547-1565, building a Russian Empire up.
伊凡雷帝在前18年統(tǒng)治期間，也就是1547到1565年間，建立了俄羅斯帝國
And the rest of it, 1565-1584, tearing it down.
而又在1565到1584年將其毀滅
As we've seen, the time of troubles, 1598-1612,
正如我們看到的，1598-1612是充滿動亂的時期
which followed the death of Ivan's son, Feodor, tested the new nation's fiber in many ways.
也是伊凡兒子費多爾死去之后的時期，從許多方面，試煉了這個新國家的力量
They had false Dmitri's, Polish and Swedish invasions, murdered tsars, class war between peasants and Boyars.
出現(xiàn)了偽德米特里，波蘭人和瑞典人入侵，刺殺沙皇，平民與波雅爾貴族之間的階級戰(zhàn)爭
But as it turned out, the gathering of the land begun by Grand Prince Ivan the First, that is, Ivan "money bags" of Moscow,
但是結(jié)果由大王子伊凡一世，人稱莫斯科的"錢袋子伊凡"開展的聚集土地運動
was more than just a mere land grab.
不僅僅是一種土地掠奪
Welded together by their Kievan-Rus' heritage and held together by the Russian Orthodox Church,
融合了基輔羅斯的遺產(chǎn)，由俄羅斯東正教團(tuán)結(jié)在一起
the people of Holy Russia rose to the challenge of becoming the best third Rome they could be.
神圣的俄羅斯人肩負(fù)起了成為第三個的羅馬帝國的使命
At first, the early Romanovs focused on things they early Moskevite princes had done well sometimes:
起初，羅曼諾夫人聚焦于早期莫斯科王子所擅長的事情上
easing tensions between the classes and avoiding senseless wars.
就是緩和階級之間的矛盾，避免不必要的戰(zhàn)爭
But changes would eventually have to be made.
但是，最終他們還是要面對變化
The Western world was modernizing at a far faster rate than Russia was.
西方世界的現(xiàn)代化速度遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)超越俄國
