As youngsters come along, they need a period of adjustation while their control in the environment grows up.

如果是青少年，他们会需要一段适应期,以逐渐掌控所处的环境。

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But one argument that can be made is that things things were so terrible and so out of control in the earlier period that the strengthening of the state is something that people saw as beneficial.

然而有这样一个观点,在动荡不定的战争年代,一个极权国家是有利于国家的发展的

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