政权垮台了，革命起起伏伏，但各个地方从未真正改变。

Regimes fall, revolutions come and go, but places never really change.

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因此改变权力结构，特别是提升市民社会在权力结构中的权力比重，对于有效制约行政权至关重要。

Therefore it is very important to adjust the power framework, especially to increase the power proportion of the civil society, in order to restrain administrative power effectively.

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Maybe someday the British--United Kingdom-- something will happen to it, it will fall apart or change, but that is so distant in the future that we can disregard that, so we'll take that as forever.

或许有人会说英国,大英帝国,总会有突发事件发生,政权会发生改变,但至少现阶段不会改变,我们可以忽视它,因此我们就认为它是永久存在的了

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