He created finally--he emigrated to the United States and he set up a city called New Harmony.

而他确实这么做了，他移居到美国,并创建了一个名叫新和谐村的公社。

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Now, the Renaissance city-states of Italy had relatively efficient administrations, to be sure.

有一点应该明确,文艺复兴时期时,意大利的城邦国家就已经出现了相对高效的官僚政府

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The tradition of these decentralized city-states that were the heart of the Renaissance.

这些城邦国家自治的传统,确实是文艺复兴的核心所在

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First of all, it's not a coincidence that in both England and in the Dutch Republic you had, along with the city-states of Northern Italy, you had the largest percentage of middle-class population that you could find in Europe.

英国和荷兰共和国,以及北意大利的城邦,拥有全欧洲比例最大的中产阶级人群,这是有它的必然性的

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In the city-states of Venice, which was a major trading city already on the decline, and in Florence, and in Milan, and in Turin, and in places like that you find something very comparable, but Italy is not united until the 1860s.

在威尼斯城邦,这个曾以贸易为主的城市已经走向衰落,而佛罗伦萨,米兰,都灵,类似的这些城市情况都是如此,除了十九世纪六十年代才统一的意大利

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