14.It was an understandable response to a thousand-year history of Mongol invasions, byzantine intrigues, great famines, pervasive serfdom, unbridled tyranny, countless insurrections, bloody revolutions, crippling wars, years-long sieges, and millions upon millions slaughtered—all on a frigid landscape that forgave nothing.
这
可以理解的,因为一千年来蒙古人的入侵、拜占庭式的阴谋、大饥荒、无处不在的
奴制、肆无忌惮的暴政、无数的起义、血腥的革命、残酷的战争、长达数年的围困和数以百万计的屠杀——所有这些都在一个不宽恕任何人的寒冷土地上。机翻