despots

It was, as a matter of fact, a paradise for the foreign adventurers and a sanctuary for warlords, bandits, hooligans and local despots.

租界时期鼓浪屿社会是西方各国冒险家的乐园，也是军阀、土匪、流氓、恶霸的庇护所。

Here, despots of every stripe continued to hold sway, unaltered by time or circumstance.

各种各样的独裁者持续统治着这里，不受时间和环境变化的影像。

IF EVER there was a moment for Europe to come up with new policies for dealing with despots, it is now.

如果欧盟需要制定一些新政策来管治全球独裁者的话，现在正是时候。

For years China has been chummy with African despots who seem to be reliable partners.

多年来，中国和非洲暴君们称兄道弟，似乎彼此是相互信赖的好伙伴。

His governmental principles were those of the Han despots - political authority centralized in one man, reinforced by a graded bureaucracy.

蒋介石施政之道，取法于汉代专制君主的那一套——在官僚等级制度基础上一人独揽大权。

Tycoons: self-made adventurers who enliven the business landscape; as opposed to despots who have stolen their fortunes from the poor.

大亨：让商业领域活跃起来的白手起家的冒险家；而非窃取穷人财富的恶霸。

but quite as frequently it awards more than justice when the appeal is made, as despots love to have it made, entirely to its generosity.

但是一旦完全投其所好、吁请暴虐的人们慷慨大度时，倒常常会得到超出公道的奖赏。

Waterloo (in Belgium) used to be popular with retired despots and plenty were happy swanning about the French Riveria.

滑铁卢（在比利时）过去曾经受到那些下台的暴君的青睐，他们中的许多人都在法国里维拉（Riveria）自得其乐。

Has the sword of despots proved to be a safer or surer instrument of reform in government than enlightened reason ?

难道暴君的刀剑比启蒙的理智更能成为政府改革中安全，可靠的手段？。

Inspired by protests against other despots, Palestinians in both territories have been crying for "revolution until we end the division" .

受反对其他暴政的抗议激发，两派统治下的巴勒斯坦人都在大声疾呼“革命，直到结束分裂状态”。

ONE sign that change is afoot in countries ruled by despots is the appearance of murals and cartoons ridiculing them.

那些独裁专制国家正在悄然发生着一些变化，即壁画和卡通都在嘲弄着那些独裁者。

Perhaps he needs to remember, amid cacophony, that some of the best conductors are despots.

或许他需要记住，不调和中，有一些最好的指挥是专制者。

One of the striking things about today's world is that it is full of despots pretending to be democrats.

当今世界一个引人注目之处在于，到处都是装成民主人士的专制统治者。

In practice, self-determination soon became an expedient for newly established despots to strengthen and perpetuate their wrongdoings.

在实际上，“自决原则”很快成为那些新成立的独裁者加强和维持其错误做法的手段。

The first time of "overthrow the local despots and distribute land" was about seizing wealth and power in the name of the people.

一次“打土豪、分田地”以人民的名义抢夺财富、获取政权。

I admit that Russia has its beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots .

我同意俄罗斯有它的美，特别是它那一套结实的专制制度，但是我可怜那些专制君主。

Aren't all despots a threat to freedom loving people all over the world.

难不成威胁自由的暴君也爱全世界的人民吗？

Arab despots have destroyed political and institutional life, leaving their opponents little option but the mosque and the madrassa.

阿拉伯专制统治者摧毁了政治和机构体制，让反对者几乎别无选择，只能投奔清真寺和宗教大学。

Some despots, in Hindustan and Persia, went further, slitting smokers' lips or pouring molten lead down their throats.

更有甚者，一些印度斯坦和波斯暴君扯开吸烟者的嘴唇，或者把融铅灌入喉咙。

At one moment, Mr Zuma is upholding the principles of national sovereignty and non-interference dear to despots around the world.

有时候，祖马先生正秉持国家主权原则和对世界独裁统治不加干预的原则。