Mr Gingeras sets out the broad context: the rise of Europe's colonising democracies-largely liberal at home but prone to heavy-handed imperialism abroad-at the expense of traditional theocracies, organised around fealty to a sovereign whose power was more than symbolic.

金格拉斯阐述了大背景：欧洲殖民民主国家的崛起--国内基本上是自由主义，但国外倾向于高压帝国主义--以牺牲传统神权政体为代价，这些政体是围绕着对个君主的效忠而建立的，君主的权具有象征意义。

Now, the interesting thing about Gilead's theocracy is that it uses religion to oppress women.

基列神权政治的有趣之处于它利用宗教来压迫妇女。

The city's mayor, Ron Huldai, went so far as to tell a television interviewer in early December that the country was shifting " from a democracy to a theocracy."

12 月初，该市市长罗恩·胡尔代甚至接受电视采访时表示，该国正“从民主国家转向神权国家”。

Iran is considered an Islamic republic or a theocracy, meaning that a religious figure runs the country.

伊朗被认为是个伊斯兰共和国或神权国家，这意味着由位宗教人士管理国家。

Christian nationalists want to turn America into a theocracy, a government under biblical rule.

基督教民族主义者希望将美国变成个神权政治国家，即个受圣经统治的政府。

As Christians, we believe, oh, yes, the church is the theocracy.

作为基督徒，我们相信，是的，教会就是神权政体。

No, do we live in a theocracy?

，我们生个神权政治的国家吗？

Conversely, in large parts of England communities of Puritans had emerged, they were radical Protestants who based their beliefs on the theocracies which had grown up in cities like Geneva, under the minister Jean Calvin in the mid-sixteenth century.

相反，英格兰的广大地区，清教徒社区已经形成，他们是激进的新教徒，其信仰基于16世纪中叶日内瓦等城市由让·加尔文牧师建立的神权政体。

The notion of this strange culture pocket, hidden amongst unknown ranges, and ruled over by some vague kind of theocracy, interested him as a student of history, apart from the curious though perhaps related secrets of the lamasery.

这个奇怪的文化口袋的概念，隐藏未知的范围内，并由某种模糊的神权政治统治，除了喇嘛寺的奇怪但可能相关的秘密之外，作为历史学生的他很感兴趣。

And yes, they, they lived in a theocracy where religion, um, you know, was, was in government or tied together, but spirituality and the spirits of supernatural entities were part of their lives.

是的，他们生种政教合的体制中，宗教与政府紧密相连，但精神世界和超自然实体的精神也是他们生的部分。

But what gave particular power to the world's largest theocracy right now was that so many competing visions of paradise seemed to be crisscrossing every hour here with furious intensity.

但现赋予世界上最大的神权政治特殊权的是，如此多的相互竞争的天堂愿景似乎每小时都以强烈的强度纵横交错。

But the fatwa had global consequences, making clear that the anti-blasphemy laws of a reactionary theocracy could be enforced by volunteer assassins anywhere on the planet.

但该追杀令产生了全球影响，明确表明反动神权国家的反亵渎法可以由地球上任何地方的志愿刺客执行。

One is sort of the military, secular dictatorships of Ba'athism, which was Syria and Egypt, versus theocracy, which were the Khomeinist or the Saudi, the Wahhabis.

种是军事世俗独裁政权，如叙利亚和埃及的阿拉伯复兴社会党政权，另种是神权政治，如霍梅尼主义或沙特的瓦哈比派。

There has to be some example other than theocracy and madrasas and reading one book and Sharia law.

必须要有除了神权政治、伊斯兰教学校、只读本书以及沙里亚法之外的其他例子。

Thus, as the Second Age draws on, we have a great Kingdom and evil theocracy (for Sauron is also the god of his slaves) growing up in Middle-earth.

因此，随着第二纪元的到来，我们中土世界成长着个伟大的王国和邪恶的神权统治（因为索伦也是他奴隶的神）。

Do we live in a theocracy, yes or no?

我们生个神权政治的国家吗？是还是是？

So, right, a theocracy is governance of the people by the rules of the religion, right, by the rules of, ultimately, by God.

所以，个神权政体就是由宗教律法来治理人民，最终是由上帝的律法来治理。

Now, we don't, as Christians, we don't believe in a theocracy.

现，作为基督徒，我们并相信神权政治。

It can be troubling for us because we're like, well, that sounds like a theocracy.

这让我们感到困扰，因为我们心想，那听起来像是种神权政治。

As the protests have broadened to a general protest against Iran's strict Muslim theocracy, the reaction from Iran security forces has been more and more harsh.

随着抗议动规模的扩大，抗议者开始抗议伊朗严苛的穆斯林神权统治，伊朗安全部队的回击也越来越残酷。