"It is complex difficult terrain, both the land and the people, it is a tribal society with a culture vastly different from what most of us are familiar with and it varies around the country, so you cannot assume what is true in one province is true in another,".

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Just to carry on some of the highlights of that story, that tells us a lot about the society.

继续讲故事里面的几个要点,这反映很多社会现实

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We have a habit in this society to think that individual rights, when they drafted the Bill of Rights, was just laid down for us and it's just traveled through time and here they are.

在这个社会中我们习惯于思考人权问题,创始人们起草了《权利法案》,这份草案被我们所珍藏的,历尽世事变迁仍在这里

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The idea was that a lot of people can't afford a house -let's all get together and pool our money -in a Building Society or Saving and Loan Association -and then we'll loan out to some of us to buy the house.

当初的想法是,很多人都买不起房子,那我们就把钱凑在一起,放到一个建房互助协会或储贷协会里,然后向我们中那些要买房的人发放贷款

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