Historically, the role of external pressure tends to be paramount in isolating the dictators and causing divisions within their regimes.
从历史上来看，外部压力在孤立独裁者，导致其政权分裂的方面所起的作用极为重要。Putin is a dictator pulling these strings. Medvedev get's his instructions from Putin and would be toast if he did not follow them.
普京是独裁者控制这些事情的发展，梅德韦杰夫从普京那得到了指示，如果不照办他会被烤了。Even his old cronies who had ridden with him to power ganged up with Shanghai merchants to drive China's dictator from his capital.
甚至当年拥他上台的亲信、故旧，也同上海的商人串通一气，要把这个独裁者赶出南京。The Western press called him a lackey and dictator when he died, butRussians, who knew him, did not.
他去世后，西方的新闻界称他为忠实的仆从和独裁者。但是，真正了解他的俄罗斯人知道他不是。It is unlikely that the President could ever become a dictator, Congress, the press and the people between them rule out such a possibility.
美国总统不可能变为独裁者。国会、新闻界和人民共同监督，排除了这种可能性。As so often happens to dictators , however decent they seem to start with, General Musharraf has come to see himself as "indispensable" .
穆萨拉夫将军已经把自己看成是巴基斯坦必不可以少的人物，通常独裁者都是如此，不管他们最开始看上去有多么的道貌岸然。"The nations I would worry about, weird places run by odd dictators, they're just not capable of doing this stuff, " he said.
他说：“对这些古怪国家我应该担心的是他们的乖僻独裁者的统治。他们根本就没办法搞这种高科技工作。”It is not to torture or kill its own ethnic nationals and was not formed to be used for an individual group or any dictator.
（所以，我认为，）军队绝不是用来对自己的少数民族同胞实施折磨或者杀戮的，军队绝不是为了某个个体组织或者任何一个独裁者而被组建的。Or, as a writer in The Washington Times lamented last week: "Mr Mubarak may have been a tinpot dictator, but he supported America. "
或者，正如《华盛顿时报》（TheWashingtonTimes）一位撰稿人上周哀叹的那样：“穆巴拉克或许是个无足轻重的独裁者，但他支持美国。”