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Nobles.
贵族。
Nobles are the key to the door of Scotland.
贵族是开启苏格兰大门之钥。
Grant our nobles lands in the north.
将北方的土地赐给我们的贵族。
give their nobles estates here in England.
将这里的土地赐给英格兰贵族。
and make them too greedy to oppose us.
让他们为贪婪而不与我们对立。
But, sire, our nobles will be reluctant to uproot.
但我们贵族不会愿意迁移。
New lands mean new taxes.
新的土地意味着新的税。
and they're already taxed for the war in France.
他们在法国时己因战事徵税了。
Are they?
有吗？
Are they?
有吗？
The trouble with Scotland is that it's full of Scots.
苏格兰的问题在于太多的苏格兰人存在。
Perhaps the time has come to reinstitute an old custom.
也许该是改旧税收法令的时候。
Grant them prima noctes.
应允他们初夜权。
First night.
初夜权。
When any common girl inhabiting their lands is married,
当平民女儿因婚姻而继承土地。
our nobles shall have sexual rights to her on the night of her wedding.
贵族有权在新婚夜占有她。　　
If we cart get them out, we'll breed them out.
若赶不走他们，就让他们盈满为患。
That should fetch just the kind of lords we want to Scotland.
这是我们来苏格兰统治的宗旨。
taxes or no taxes, huh?
徵税或不徵税。
A most excellent idea, sire.
真是好主意，大人。
Is it?
是吗？

妙语佳句
1.too...to...
太…以致不能…
原文"make them too greedy to oppose us" "让他们为贪婪而不与我们对立"
便是"让他们太贪婪以致于（受利益诱惑）而不与我们对立"的意思.
例如：
That is too bad. Ask sb. to sth. Example:I require to ask him toto the movies.
那太可惜让某人做某事例子：我想让他去电影院。
2.uproot
vt. 根除，连根拔起；迫使某人离开出生地或定居处
vi. 迁离；改变生活方式
在这里做"迁移"的意思，此外"move/remove/migrate/shift/transport"也有这个意思。
例如：
The story is being bandied about that you are going to remove to London.
人们传说你要迁移到伦敦。
Some birds migrate as season changes.
有些鸟随季节迁徙。
3.get out
离开，出去；泄露；出版
这里作"赶...出去"的意思，也可以用"drive away/expel/throw out/drive sb. out of

the door"表示。
4.breed out
在人工繁殖中消除，文中表示"盈满为患"的意思。
例如：
He says good farming and science could probably breed out any diseases that may be harmful to humans.
他说好的农业科学可能在繁殖中有任何对人类有害的疾病。
考考你：
翻译：
1.也许该是改旧税收法令的时候。
2.若赶不走他们，就让他们盈满为患。
上期答案：
1.It was widely whispered that for the princess to conceive.
2.The French will grovel to anyone with strength.