Despite all of the--Mitterrand's plans for decentralization, and the creation of regional councils, basically France remains the most centralized state in Western Europe, and the role of Paris in French life does not have an equivalent in other European countries.

尽管密特朗计划在法国实施,去中央集权化并创立地方议会,法国基本上还是西欧,中央集权化程度最高的国家,巴黎在法国的地位是欧洲其它国家的城市,所不能比拟的

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Other countries have it centralized but in the U.S. it's split up over fifty states.

其他国家均实行国家统一监管,但美国却把监管权分给了各个州

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Now there's something very wrong about this diagram, in that it's showing these functions as sort of centralized in the core, and of course that's not how your body is organized.

这张图上有些东西是不对的,图上显示这些功能都围绕着一个核心,当然,这绝不是人体的组织形式

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