Oil wealth yanked a dirt-poor desert country into modernity but distorted relationships such as that between the citizen and the state, and between effort and reward in the workplace.

石油让沙特阿拉伯摆脱了极度贫困状态，将它带进现代世界，不过也扭曲了国民与国家的关系以及工作的劳酬关系。

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The state today needs to be enabling and based on a partnership with the citizen, one of mutual rights and responsibilities. The implications are profound.

如今，国家都建立在与人民合作的基础上，建立在双方权利与义务的基础上，这背后意义深刻。

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Earlier, American official reported the first American citizen and the second person to die of the virus in the Uinted State.

早些时候，美国官方报道了首例美国公民，第二个死于流感病毒的人。

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They must be at least twenty-five years old, an American citizen for at least seven years and live in the state they represent.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

Some protestors carry signs comparing the Obama administration with Nazi Germany, and fringe elements still question whether the president is really a U.S.citizen, despite the fact that he has an official birth cirtificate on file with the state of Hawaii and birth announcements were printed shortly after he was born.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

So the government sees the relationship between citizen and state as, effectively, a deal.

BBC: Should we pick up other people's litter?

Surely they never agreed to the covenant between citizen and state?

BBC

The relationship between citizen and state has just been altered.

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