Perhaps the spread of technology means that the old centres of power are also changing.
或许科技的广泛传播意味着旧的权力中心的转移。
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Versailles was the centre of power and the material embodiment of absolute monarchy that reigned over France until the Revolution from 1788-1799.
在1788-1799年大革命爆发之前,凡尔赛宫一直是权力中心,也是君主专制统治法国的物质体现。
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The centre of power in the world had shifted from Europe to a straight line between Moscow and Washington but France, like Britain and the Netherlands hated to give up its imperial prestige so quickly.
This absence from the centre of power would continue for most of the 1930s as Churchill was overlooked again in Baldwin's cabinet when the Conservatives returned to power in their own right in the mid-1930s.
Centers of power are localized regions of the world where political, economic and cultural influence are dominant for a time, hence defining a particular era in a particular sphere of influence.