If I keep on constructing these boxes within boxes, so the next box would be a little box in here.

如果我不断缩小这个方格,下一个方格会是这样的

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His works seem less theoretical constructing abstract models of political life than advice-giving, in the sense of serving as a sort of civic-minded arbiter of public disputes.

他的著作较不偏向理论,建构政治生活的抽象模型看来,反而较像是提供建言，功能像是一种公益型的裁决,旨在处理公共争端。

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One was in the 1600s when people started constructing life tables.

例如在十七世纪时,人们开始制作寿命表

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