Now, one of the points I made last week, for those of you who were here, is that one of the themes that ties European history together is the growth of the modern state, of state-making.

上节课来了的人可能记得,我谈到一个观点,现代国家的形成和民族国家的构建,是联系欧洲历史的一个主题

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I had to move here. I lived in San Francisco which is on the other side of the country.

我必须要搬到这儿来。我本来住在旧金山，正好在这个国家的另一端。

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I think that at least for many of us, there is a sort of logical conundrum we go through and that is, if good people don't vote then we'll be in a bad world; so I have to vote to prove that good people vote, then maybe it will happen.

我想,至少对大部分人来说,必须面对一个逻辑上的难题,就是,如果好人不投票,那我们将会生活在坏人操纵的世界里,所以我必须要投票,来证明好人会投票,那未来的国家将会由好人掌控

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