Two ways of measuring how this happened and what difference it made is to realize, to return to what I said earlier, that big state structures involve bureaucracies.

如果要弄懂贵族如何获利,以及贵族获利所引起的改变,我们必须意识到大国必须建立官僚机构,我在前面曾提到过这一点

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But you don't yet have these big state structures.

但你还没有见过这样的大国家结构

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So that's a big help. And equilibrium happens when there isn't any possible change of state that would satisfy this.

这个非常方便，当所有的变化,都无法满足这个公式的时候,系统就达到了平衡。

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