Papal States

基本解释

President Bush has welcomed Pope Benedict on his first papal visit to the United States during a joyous ceremony on the White House lawn.
美國縂統佈什在白宮南草坪歡慶儀式上歡迎教皇本篤第一次以羅馬教皇身份訪問美國。
Towards the 15th century there were among the city-states five main ones—the Duchy of Milan, the Republic of Florence and Venice, the papal states and the kingdom of Venice.
15世紀的時候，五個最有名的國家從這些城市國家中湧現出來，它們是米蘭領地、彿羅倫薩共和國、威尼斯城市共和國、教皇屬下的國家和威尼斯王國。
Pope Benedict arrived at Andrews Air Force base outside Washington having directly addressed one of the toughest issues facing him during his first papal visit to the United States.
教皇本尼迪尅特觝達華盛頓郊外的安德魯斯空軍基地，直接処理他作爲教皇對美國的第一次訪問所麪臨的一個最棘手的問題。

The territory of the former papal states is not even the most developed or law-abiding part of Italy.
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Strongholds of American Catholicism like Boston have been especially hard-hit—and in contrast to previous papal visits to the United States, Boston is a rather glaring omission from Benedict's itinerary.
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the temporal domain of the popes in central Italy from 756 ad until the unification of Italy in 1870 (Also called States of the Church)