He's engaging his father in to a contractual situation just as he will engage the entire English people in The Reason of Church Government.

他在使他的父亲加入这个合同,就像他使整个英国国民加入一样,我们在《教会政府的原因》里已经看到过。

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We could think of it as the contractual relation that a writer makes with his reader.

我们可以把它看作一种契约关系,作者与读者之间订立的契约。

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That means Goodbody & Company owns the shares and you just have a contractual relationship with Goodbody that, in principle, some of those shares are yours.

也就是说持有股票的是古德巴迪,你只不过与其有着合同关系,原则上,部分股票归你所有

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