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Like her fellow little German princess, Catherine the Second,
跟另一位德國公主凱瑟琳二世一樣
Alexandra was a woman of iron will who trusted implicitly in her own intelligence and intuition.
亞歷山德拉也是一位有著鋼鐵般意志的女人并完全依靠自己的指揮和直覺
Unlike with Catherine the Second, Alexandra's implicit trust in herself was utterly unjustified.
與凱瑟琳不同的是，亞歷山德拉對自己的絕對信任并沒有被實踐證明是可靠的，
An anti-Semite like his father, and a hater of Asians to boot, Nicholas the Second developed the bad habit of
尼古拉二世同他父親一樣是個反猶分子并且也厭惡亞洲人，他逐漸形成了一個壞習慣
listening only to those people he thought worthy, his wife Alexandra and the circle of court flatterers.
只聽取自己認為值得傾聽的人的意見，那就是他的妻子以及朝廷的寵臣
People of ability like Sergei Vit who had brought on Russia's long delayed industrial revolution,
像謝爾蓋維特這樣的有才之士開啟了俄國已落后太久的工業革命
found themselves pushed to the side by nobles who hid the truth from him and encouraged him to get into successful little wars.
他們發現自己受到貴族排斥，這些貴族向沙皇隱瞞真相并鼓勵他參加小規模戰爭
This is how Russia wound up involved in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
就這樣俄國卷入了1904到1905的日俄戰爭
This is how Russia brought the 1905 Revolution.
同樣俄國發生了1905年的革命
In Segment 20d: Not with a Bang, it's time to say goodbye to the Romanov dynasty, the Tsarist monarchy, and to the Russian Empire.
片段20d：一切發生的并不那么突然，是時候告別羅曼諾夫王朝，沙皇制俄羅斯帝國了
Stali Pinin and Vit were dead, and Nicholas was left with only Alexandra and Rasputin to guide him through
Stali Pinin和維特都死了，尼古拉只有亞歷山德拉和拉斯普廷帶領著他走過一戰期間
the increasingly drastic military and social beatings Russia endured during the First World War.
俄國不斷遭受的軍事打擊和社會變革，俄國撐過了一戰
