The people of an oppressed country obey their conquerors because they want to go on living.
一个被压迫国家的人民顺从他们的征服者,是因为他们想活下去。
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After World War II, many Japanese abandoned the arranged marriage as part of their rush to adopt the more democratic ways of their American conquerors.
第二次世界大战后,许多日本人放弃了包办婚姻,这是他们急于采用美国征服者们更民主方式的一种举措。
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Conquerors seized them as especially precious spoils of war; tourists came to see and hear these machines the way they made pilgrimages to sacred relics.