About the wars of those times one has the feeling, right or wrong, that the rulers could have waged them or abstained from them. Of present-day wars we suspect that they are undertaken in order to cut off revolutions or to channel them, something that need not always be successful, of course. Hence the slight current interest in, e.g., the wars of Louis XIV, with the possible exception of those moments in which a real popular movement is discernible among his opponents or allies—Holland, and Spain in the War of Succession.
我译出前面几句：对那个时代的战争人们有这样的感受，不论对错，统治者能够发动或避免它们。至于当前的战争，我们怀疑从事它们是为了制止或疏导革命，……
完全译出再加5分。
參考答案:对于这场当时很流行的战役的胜利,在那个时代很可能是被反对的,但是现在是可以被接受的......
