The northern Chinese welcomed the Mongols as liberators from the hated Kin, rather than as oppressors

北方人把蒙古人当作拯救者而不是压迫者,原因是蒙古人使他们从仇恨的金人压迫下解放出来。

If the Iraqi people welcome allied forces as liberators rather than conquerors, then quibbles about legality may be overlooked.

如果伊拉克人民以解放者而不是侵略者来欢迎美军,那么有关合法性的遁词可能被忽略了。

It is of supreme importance that we who, with our Allies, are the liberators of Europe should so use power that it is always under the control of law

最重要不过的是,我们和我们的盟国是欧洲的解放者,应该总是在法律的控制下使用军力。

||1:“Open” is clear, colourful and convincing, marshalling evidence from a range of eras and civilisations.||2:The Roman Empire ceased to prosper when it ceased to be open.||3:Christianity became the established religion, and sought to crush all others.||4:“This new intolerance…led to vicious conflicts… between Christians and pagans, who saw their old gods being banned and their temples torn down.”||5:Persecuted pagans joined Rome’s enemies, even welcoming barbarian invaders as liberators .

||1:《开放》这本书清晰易懂、丰富多彩、令人信服，作者探寻了一系列时代和文明，并从中收集证据。||2:罗马帝国停止开放的同时，繁荣也就落幕了。||3:基督教成为了罗马帝国国教，并试图粉碎所有的其他宗教。||4:“这样新的对异己的无法容忍引发了基督教和异教徒之间的恶性冲突，异教徒们看着自己信仰的旧神被明令禁止，目睹着庙宇被拆毁。”||5:受到迫害的异教徒们加入了罗马的敌方阵营，他们甚至欢迎野蛮的入侵者来解放罗马。

||1:Mr Snyder’s book is revisionist history of the best kind: in spare, closely argued prose, with meticulous use of statistics, he makes the reader rethink some of the best-known episodes in Europe’s modern history.||2:For those who are wedded to the simplistic schoolbook notions that the Hitlerites were the mass murderers and the Soviets the liberators , or that the killing started in 1939 and ended in 1945, Mr Snyder’s theses will be thought-provoking or shocking.||3:Even those who pride themselves on knowing their history will find themselves repeatedly brought up short by his insights, contrasts and comparisons.||4:Some ghastly but well-known episodes recede; others emerge from the shadows.

||1:Snyder的书是一本最好的修正史：用简练而论证严密的笔法，加上对统计数据的精妙运用，本书使读者对欧洲现代史上最著名的一些章节作了一番再思考。||2:对于那些已经接受了单纯的教科书观点(即希特勒一方是大屠杀的凶手，苏联人是解放者，或者屠杀始于1939年，结束于1945年)的人来说，作者所述之事将是发人深思、震人心魄的。||3:就算那些以自己的历史知识为傲的读者也会一再地为作者的广博见识、鲜明比照和比喻手法而受益匪浅。||4:一些苍白可怖但广为人知的历史片段逐渐模糊，另一些片段从阴影中开始浮现。

||1: Charming in private, awkward in public, scrupulously honest and a bit out of touch, Lech Kaczynski exemplified the strengths and weaknesses of the political milieu from which he came. ||2: His formative years were the long bleak decades of Poland’s communist era, first in Warsaw and then in provincial Gdansk. ||3: He and his twin brother, Jaroslaw, idolised their father, a veteran of the Polish Home Army, which fought an underground war against the German occupiers, only to be persecuted by the Soviet “liberators ”. ||4: Each night at bedtime, the two boys used to sing the country’s national anthem: “Poland is not yet lost, while we still live.”

||1:莱赫·卡钦斯基私下里充满魅力，大庭广众却举止笨拙，严谨正直，有点儿跟时代脱节，在他身上，体现了他所出身的政治环境的种种优缺点。||2:这种性格成型的日子，要追溯到波兰萧瑟黯淡、长达数十年的共产主义时代，先是在华沙，继而在格但斯克省。||3:卡钦斯基与孪生兄弟雅罗斯瓦夫，无比崇拜他们的父亲，一位波兰本土军老兵。这支军队曾与德国占领者进行地下斗争，结果却横遭苏联“解放者”迫害。||4:以往在每晚临睡时，两个男孩常常哼唱波兰国歌：“我们一息尚存，波兰就绝不会灭亡。”

Some fighters consider themselves liberators of their country. Others see the conflict as becoming a battle between religious groups. But the militias are made up of both Christians and animists, people who believe that natural objects have spirits. They say they are motivated by nationalism -- not religion.

一些士兵认为自己是国家的解放者。另一些人认为这次冲突是宗教组织之间的战争。但该民兵组织是由基督教徒和万物有灵论者组成。万物有灵论者认为世间万物皆有灵性，他们说，他们是受民族主义的推动，而不是宗教。

Bitter experience in Iraq has taught how liberators soon come to be seen as oppressors.

伊拉克的惨痛经历教会了他们解放者如何迅速沦为了镇压者。

S. and British troops were greeted as liberators in the capital of Kabul.

英美联军作为解放者在首都喀布尔受到夹道欢迎。