After studying an hour, I finally got the hang of the lesson.
我学习了一个小时,终于理解了这一课的要点。
Such a small mistake is pardonable.
不会追究犯了那么小的错误的。
In times of peace, when business was bad, Hawkwood and his men would march into a city-state and, after burning down a few farms, would offer to go away protection money was paid to them.