It has no land to defend; no police to enforce law and order; it does not have subjects, bound by a clear cluster of rights, obligations and cultural signals.

这里无疆可守、无警力强制执行法律和命令；甚至无一套清晰权责与文化特征约束的国民。

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Anyone whose labors take him into the far reaches of the country, as ours lately have done, is bound to mark how the years have made the land grow fruitful.

任何人被其劳作带入这个国家遥远的地带，就像最近我们所做过的，肯定会注意到岁月如何让这片土地长出果实。

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Over 4000 of them boarded passenger liners bound to Crete Island of Greece and over 400 got to Egypt by land.

其中4000多人乘坐大型邮轮赴希腊克里特岛，400多人经陆路撤至埃及。

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In a rapidly growing city such as Ahmedabad, simply legalizing construction on peripheral land is bound to increase its value.

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Instead, slavery was replaced by serfdom in the guise of tenant farming that bound the ex-slaves to the land nearly as tightly as the master's chains.

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Any one whose labors take him into the far reaches of the country, as ours lately have done, is bound to mark how the years have made the land grow fruitful.

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