Definitions are slippery, but for our purposes, a nation-state involves a centralized government that can claim and exercise authority over a distinctive territory.

定义是模糊的， 但就我们的目的而言，一个民族国家涉及一个中央集权的政府， 它可以在一个独特的领土上宣称和行使权力。

The countess, fortified by the doctor's orders and the obedience of her servants, stimulated too by me, who thought this struggle a good means to teach her to exercise authority over the count, held out against his violence.

伯爵夫人因医生的命令和她仆人的服从而变得坚强，也受到我的刺激，我认为这场斗争是教她对伯爵行使权威的好方法，因此坚持反对他的暴力行为。