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Some historians will tell you that for most of the people of England, Hastings didn' t matter that much, that 1066 was mostly a matter of replacing Saxon lords with Norman knights. The peasants still ploughed their fields, paid taxes to the king, prayed to avoid poverty and pestilence and watched the seasons roll round. But the everyday, can rub shoulders with the genuinely catastrophic. Yes, the grass grew green here again, but now there were bones beneath the buttercups and an entire governing class of the English had been dispossessed, their men, land and animals taken from them and given as spoils to the victorious foreigners. You could survive and still be English but now you belonged to an inferior race, the conquered. You lived in England but it was no longer your country. |
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yǒu xiē shǐ xué jiā huì gào sù nǐ, duì duō shù yīng gé lán rén lái shuō, hēi sī tíng sī zhī zhàn bìng méi yǒu nà me zhòng yào, 1066 nián de gǎi biàn bù guò shì nuò màn qí shì qǔ dài le sā kè xùn wáng zú. nóng mín men réng yī rú jì wǎng dì gēng dì nà shuì, qí qiú yuǎn lí pín kùn yǔ wēn yì, nián fù yī nián jīng lì zhe sì jì gēng dié, què wú yì tiān bù miàn lín zhe miè dǐng de wēi xiǎn. chéng rán, yě cǎo huì féng chūn zài lǜ. dàn zài máo gèn zhī xià què mái zhe ái ái bái gǔ, zhěng gè yīng gé lán tǒng zhì jiē jí tuì chū le lì shǐ wǔ tái. tā men de chén mín tǔ dì hé shēng chù dōu bèi duó zǒu, chéng wéi le huò shèng de wài lái qīn lüè zhě de zhàn lì pǐn. nǐ kě néng xìng cún xià lái, yī rán shì gè yīng gé lán rén, dàn què chéng wéi yí gè liè děng mín zú bèi zhēng fú de mín zú. nǐ réng zài cǐ shēng huó, dàn yīng gé lán què bù zài shì nǐ de guó jiā. |