It refers instead, to the concrete, collective, communal salvation from national suffering and oppression, particularly in the form of foreign rule or enslavement.

相反，它指的是很具体的，集体的，社会的拯救,把一个国家从苦难和压迫中解救出来，尤其是那些在外族统治者奴役下的。

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It can't just mean torture at the hands of the state.

它并不单单指，国家所实行的酷刑。

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In its oldest sense political science simply was a science of statecraft. It was addressed to statesman or potential statesmen charged with steering the ship of state.

政治科学简言之,即是权术科学，这是指政治家,或是掌握国家走向的,潜在政治家。

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The country that has the highest equity premium-- and that's for the whole twentieth century, they couldn't go back to 1802-- the most successful country is Sweden and after that Australia.

拥有最高股权溢价的国家是...,我指整个20世纪期间,他们所用的数据无法追溯到1802年...,股权溢价最高的国家是瑞典,澳大利亚紧随其后

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