He will have to sort out quarantine and licensing formalities with both Australian and Chinese authorities before he can begin exporting toads.

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Regimes or constitutions you might say are forms or formalities that determine how power is shared and distributed among citizens.

政体或宪法是一堆形式或形态,那决定了权力如何,共享与分配给其公民。

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But nevertheless Aristotle gives extraordinary importance and attention to the forms or formalities that make up a regime.

但亚里士多德确实特别强调,形式或形态,在构建政体上的重要性。

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So we move now from the matter of the regime as to what constitutes its citizens and its citizen body to the question of the form of the regime its forms its formalities its structures and institutions you might say.

我们因此从政体的物质,即组构公民与公民本体的物质,转向政体形式的问题,其形式其形态,其结构与制度。

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