經(jīng)過長時(shí)間包圍之后,這個(gè)小鎮(zhèn)已被起義軍攻克。 After a prolonged siege, the town was rendered up to the insurgents.
擒獲布里爾不僅在荷蘭歷史上而且在世界歷史上都應(yīng)視為一個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)折點(diǎn)—一個(gè)和攻克巴斯底獄或絞死查理士一世一樣的重大事件。 The capture of Brill must rank as a turning-point not only in Netherlands history but in world history: an event of the order of the fall of the Bastille, or the execution of Charles I.