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On the other hand, her fellow autocrat, King Louie the 15th of France banned it!
不過(guò)另一方面，另一位獨(dú)裁者，法國(guó)的路易十五卻對(duì)這本書(shū)下了禁令
Catherine's foreign policy was not particularly enlightened, but it did work.
凱瑟琳的對(duì)外政策并不特別開(kāi)明，不過(guò)非常有用
She expanded the Russian Empire by any means she could.
她用盡各種方法拓展俄國(guó)領(lǐng)土
She was truly gathering the lands.
實(shí)際上她是在聚攏土地，
She placed a former lover, Poniatowski on the Polish throne in 1763.
1763年，她把自己以前的情人，波尼亞托夫斯基送上了波蘭王位
And then turned her attention south.
之后把注意力轉(zhuǎn)向了南方
Russia had long considered that the Black Sea would make a logical southern boundary.
俄國(guó)一直以來(lái)都認(rèn)為黑海應(yīng)該是理想的南方邊界線
Unfortunately, the Crimea and surrounding lands were still under Ottoman Turk control.
不幸的是，克里米亞和周?chē)耐恋囟歼€處在奧斯曼土耳其的控制下
The Ottoman's moreover controlled Istanbul or Constantinople, which would give Russia an outlet on the Mediterranean if they could take it.
除此之外，奧斯曼帝國(guó)還控制了伊斯坦布爾和康斯坦丁堡，如果俄國(guó)能夠控制這兩個(gè)地方的話就在地中海有了出口
Catherine therefore started a war in 1768 with the Turks and by 1774 Russia was the Middle East's most powerful nation.
因此，凱瑟琳在1768年開(kāi)始了與土耳其的戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)，1774年俄羅斯成了中東地區(qū)最強(qiáng)大的國(guó)家
Other European powers were unpleasantly shocked by Russia's success.
其他歐洲國(guó)家對(duì)俄國(guó)的成功感到不悅和震驚
The 1774 Treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji removed the Crimea from Ottoman power, don't worry I'm not going to put that on the final,
1774年，凱那爾基協(xié)議把克里米亞移出了奧斯曼的控制范圍，放心，期末考試不會(huì)考這個(gè)的，
and gave Russia the rest of the surrounding territory.
這個(gè)協(xié)議還把黑海沿岸的大片土地割讓給了俄國(guó)
Russia annexed Crimea in 1783 regardless.
俄國(guó)在1783年悍然兼并了克里米亞
With the fertile Ukrainian steppe land under Russian control, Catherine could look west again.
有富饒的烏克蘭土地在俄羅斯的控制下，凱瑟琳可以放眼西方了
