The power of the emperor came from the mandate of heaven.

天子的权力来自于天命。

A traveler told me that the Ironfists of Enroth have lost the mandate of heaven.

一位旅行者告诉我,恩洛思的铁拳王朝失去了天堂之令.

And as well as the Mandate of Heaven, they bequeathed one other enduring concept to China.

除天命之外，周朝还留下了另一个影响深远的概念。

Here in the west, we have the concept of democracy, and in China it's the Mandate of Heaven.

它内在的图腾含义相当于西方的民主概念。

It was moral integrity and benevolent leadership that determined the holder of the Mandate of Heaven.

这是道义上的完整性和仁慈的领导，坚定的持有人的天命。

So on this view, it followed that the defeated Shang must have lost the Mandate of Heaven, which had passed to the virtuous, victorious Zhou.

因此，战败的商朝必定是失去了上天的庇佑，神明转而庇佑德行高尚的周。

That's why every single time that China has an earthquake, the political rulers were scared, because they were reading that as some kind of Mandate of Heaven.

中国的每一次地震都让当权者恐惧，因为他们将其看作违抗天命的后果。

So to turn the crime against authority or against a ruler into some justifiable action, you had to have an excuse, and that excuse is the Mandate of Heaven.

它内在的图腾含义相当于西方的民主概念。在中国，如果你触犯了神灵，或违背了民心，就会有凶兆预警—雷电、暴雨或地震。