Even the citizens of our fellow democracies see us as morally bankrupt Question: How did things go so badly wrong?

即使我们民主联盟国家的公民,都觉得我们已经道德沦丧,问您一个问题，为什么事情会发展成这样？

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The modern state, as we have come to understand it, is based upon the separation of civil society from governing authority.

我们所了解的现代国家，是根据,区隔公民社会与统治当局的角度来看。

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The democracy itself needs a literate citizen rate in order to keep it in check.

为了保持国家的持续进步,一个民主国家需要更多的高文化素养的公民。

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Well of course it's an important value to have in general that in order to be good neighbors in the world we need to understand it, we need to-- if we're going to be good citizens in the world we have to know what other people are doing and what's affecting us.

总的来说,它的重要之处在于,为了成为世界上其他国家的好邻居,我们要懂得,如果要成为世界上的一个好公民的话,我们得知道其他国家的人在做什么,是什么在影响我们

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It was a property of the commonwealth not of the individuals who inhabited it.

公民所占有的东西都非自己所有,而是属于国家的财产。

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The first rule of any state is the rule that citizens are not free to set aside the rules, to choose among them which ones to obey and to disobey.

任何国家的第一条法规,永远是公民不能自由地逍遥法外，选择他们想要,服从与违抗的法规。

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