The sovereign and, again, this is crucial, is for Hobbes, the representative of the people.

霍布斯还认为君主就是人民的代表，也是一个国家主权的象征。

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There is that one place that every tourist goes to, but it's not really your country.

那个地方每个游客都会去，
但它却不能真实地代表你们的国家。

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And,even though it's decentralized, it does not mean that the State is not strong, and that the State will not be making decisions that will affect the lives of ordinary people.

而尽管进行了去中央集权化,但并不代表国家不强,或者国家做不了,影响普通人生活的决定

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I was part of a huge conference last summer in West Africa on the end of the slave-trade in Ghana, and we had representatives we had people participating in that conference from 15 or 16 different African countries.

我去年夏天曾参加过西非的一个大型集会,纪念是加纳奴隶交易的结束,会议上有来自各国的代表,有15或16个非洲国家的代表,参与的这次大型会议

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so that means that hidden in there is the idea that these people who are creating these statistics are costing us all a lot of money.

这里隐含的一个观点是,这些统计数据代表的人们,花费了国家大量的资金

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And one of the reasons why France ends up with a republic, and not a monarchy,is because these prefects who represent the Republic can go into conservative regions and say, "hey,we didn't really like the way the elections came out last time; your municipal council, uh-uh-uh,a lot of monarchists there.

这也是为什么最终法国成为共和国,而没有成为君主制国家的原因,是因为,代表共和政体的省长可以去守旧地区并说,"嘿,我们并不喜欢上次的选举方式,你们的城市议会,有太多的拥护君主制度者了

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