8 Cush became the father of Nimrod, who was the first potentate on earth.

8 雇士生尼默洛得，他是世上第一个强人。

" It is you, " replied the potentate.

“是你，”君主答道。

You don't mind the new potentates taking over.

你不介意新的当权者接管。

Christendom was split in the 16th century, with the pope and various Protestant potentates vying for control.

基督教世界在16世纪分裂，教皇和各种新教统治者争夺控制权。

One of the great secrets of England's success with savage races has been her consideration, her respect, her almost reverence of native customs, ceremonies, and potentates.

英格兰在野蛮种族方面取得成功的一大秘诀在于她对当地习俗、仪式和君主的体贴、尊重和近乎崇敬。

The current Tom Thumb being an 'Arab' potentate who had lived at a Strand hotel for a fortnight, and had disappeared without the formality of paying his bill.

任 Tom Thumb 是一位“阿拉伯”君主，他在 Strand 的一家酒店住了两周，并且在没有正式支付账单的情况失踪了。

You do not know, you do not feel, that in your own distracted heart and disordered brain dwells the source of that unhappiness which all the potentates on earth cannot relieve.

你不知道，你没有感觉到，在你自己心烦意乱的心和混乱的大脑中，居住着地球上所有君主都无法消除的不快乐的根源。

But when it transpired that a gift of peculiar significance was to follow the congratulations, to give them weight, the inference prevailed that the white potentate and the black had taken simultaneous leave of their fourteen senses.

但是，当祝贺之后有一份具有特殊意义的礼物，增加他们的分量时，人们普遍推断白人君主和黑人同时失去了他们的十四种感官。

And there he fell in with a deep, dark, deadly, and destructive war, waged by the princes and potentates of those parts, both spiritual and temporal, against what do you think? One thing I am sure of.

在那里，他卷入了一场深刻、黑暗、致命和毁灭性的战争，这场战争是由那些地区的君主和君主发动的，无论是属灵的还是世俗的，你认为是为了反对什么？我确定的一件事。

Now, Phoebe's presence made a home about her, —that very sphere which the outcast, the prisoner, the potentate, —the wretch beneath mankind, the wretch aside from it, or the wretch above it, —instinctively pines after, —a home!

在， 菲比的存在在她周围营造了一个家——那个被遗弃者、囚犯、君主——人类之的不幸者、人类之外的不幸者、或高高在上的不幸者——本能地渴望——一个家！

Apart from this, it would doubtless be an interesting interview. He had met many peculiar potentates in his time; he took a detached interest in them, and was shrewd as a rule in his assessments.

除此之外，这无疑是一次有趣的采访。在他那个时代，他遇到过许多奇特的君主。他对它们表超然的兴趣，并且通常在他的评估中是精明的。